- Date
- December 26, 1987, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lantana, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5223CCrusenberry Windwagon
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871226071829A
- Case key
- 32119
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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 a high speed taxi test the acft inadvertently became airborne. While looking out the rt side of the acft the plt rolled it into a rt bank. He then leveled the wings after which the acft stalled, touched down and separated the main landing gear wheels from the landing gear. The main landing gear then dug into the ground & the acft came to an abrupt stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5223C
- Reported as
- Crusenberry Windwagon
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 770GW
- Engine
- Rotax 277, 28 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Crusenberry, William B.
- Registered owner
- Crusenberry, William B
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- LNA · Palm Beach County Park, runway 9, 3,489 × 75 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
- 64
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 62 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 5 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.