- Date
- October 28, 1987, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Boca Raton, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N41GKParrish Dragonfly
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871028060959A
- Case key
- 32080
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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
While on short final approach the flight encountered a wind gust which caused the left canard to drop. The landing gear on the left canard then struck the raised lip of the runway causing substantial damage. The aircraft came to rest on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41GK
- Reported as
- Parrish Dragonfly
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 818
- Airframe hours
- 54
- Engine
- Limbach L2000601, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Parrish, Jimmy R.
- Registered owner
- Jimmy R Parrish
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 27, 1987 · 54 hours before
- Airport
- BCT · Boca Raton Public, runway 5, 5,200 × 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 600 total · 54 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 19 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.