- Date
- July 2, 1989, 11:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Clermont, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2039Wood-Oldfield Baby Great Lakes
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890702018629A
- Case key
- 32300
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin. A contributing factor was the pilot's lack of experience in the aircraft.
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 acft was observed to fly over the arpt from northeast to southwest & enter a descending rgt turn (downwind) to a base & final apch. While flying at slow speed on final apch, the eng was heard to hesitate, then increase in power. The acft's right wing then dropped & the plane entered a spin to the right, from which it collided with the ground. No preimpact part failure or malfunction of the acft was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2039
- Reported as
- Wood-Oldfield Baby Great Lakes (BABY GREAT)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1945TRW
- Airframe hours
- 209
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Begley, Paul J.
- Registered owner
- Carl, Paul, Wesley Begley
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 27, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- X61 · Zellwood, FL
- Airport
- Seminole Lake Glider Port, runway 18, 3,000 × 200 ft, grass/turf
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 246 total · 7 in this make and model · 144 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCO, 28 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.