- Date
- January 17, 1988, 13:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Pompano Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N29076Christen Industries A-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880117000679A
- Case key
- 32003
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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
The plt stated that as he pushed the control stick forward in an attempt to raise the tail, the acft violently pitched up, stalled and broke right, the right wing struck the ground, & the acft rolled over & came to rest inverted. Post crash examination of the acft revealed that the forward control stick had been removed & was reinstalled backwards prior to the accident flight, restricting the forward movement of the control stick.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29076
- Reported as
- Christen Industries A-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1022
- Airframe hours
- 30
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pompano Air Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 11, 1987 · 28 hours before
- Airport
- PMP · Pompano Beach Airpark, runway 14, 4,420 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 6 in this make and model · 7,350 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 11 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PMP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.