- Date
- June 6, 1987, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Cocoa, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84HMBushby Mustang II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870606025249A
- Case key
- 31921
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - airport facility
Analysis
During the landing roll the plt lost control of the acft. It then departed the rwy, collided with a taxiway marker sign & came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84HM
- Reported as
- Bushby Mustang II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- MII-1145
- Airframe hours
- 140
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Clayton C. Hill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1986 · 40 hours before
- Airport
- COI · Merritt Island, runway 29, 3,600 × 75 ft, asphalt
N84HMRegistration cancelled Aug 3, 1994 · Hill Clayton C BUSHBY MUSTANG IIAirframe modelHill Clayton C BUSHBY MUSTANG II
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 67
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,100 total · 140 in this make and model · 6,640 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLB, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N84HM · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.