- Date
- November 3, 1987, 12:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Davie, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N53736Taylorcraft DC-65
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871103061789A
- Case key
- 31993
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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.
Analysis
Shortly after takeoff during the crosswind to downwind turn at an alt of aprx 50 ft, the acft stalled, spun to the left, & due to the low altitude the plt was unable to recover prior to impact in a left wing low nose down attitude. Postcrash examination of the acft, eng, & related components revealed no evidence of pre-impact failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53736
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft DC-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4011
- Airframe hours
- 18
- Engine
- Weslake CF-007, 60 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Howard L. Allmon
- Registered owner
- Robert J & Robert M. Fogarty
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 5, 1987 · 1 hours before
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
- 51
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 10,800 total · 200 in the last 90 days · 66 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 7 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.