- Date
- April 11, 1990, 11:05 local (15:05 UTC)
- Place
- Wimauma, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N125VSwing Velocity RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900411011939A
- Case key
- 32646
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Probable cause
Delamination of a portion of one of the wooden propeller blades at a knot, resulting in severe vibration and necessitating a forced landing.
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 during cruise flt, he felt a severe vibration from the rear of the acft (the acft was a pusher type). He secured the eng. After touchdown in a field during the forced landing, the acft rolled inverted & came to rest. Exam of the acft revealed that a portion of one propeller blade delaminated at a knot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N125V
- Reported as
- Swing Velocity RG (VELOCITY R)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- DM-074
- Airframe hours
- 115
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Swing, Brian S.
- Registered owner
- Swing, Brian S
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 5, 1990 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- LAL · Lakeland, FL
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 707 total · 70 in this make and model · 650 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAL, 25 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.