- Date
- March 14, 1991, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eustis, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N31HEElliott Emeraude
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910314005399A
- Case key
- 32832
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Probable cause
Excessive elevator control input by the PIC while his attention was diverted, inattentiveness to the airspeed (vs), and inadvertent stall while on approach to land.
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 PIC was seated in the rt seat & stated that the pvt rated pax was flying the acft from the lt seat. The pax stated that this was only the second flt in the acft & he had his hands on the control column to feel the input by the PIC during the apch & landing. The PIC further stated that while on short final, he diverted his attention to the t-hangars on the airstrip. When he looked back to the rwy, the acft attitude was 20-25 degs nose high. The acft then stalled, descended lt wing low, cartwheeled, & came to rest upright. The acft was destroyed by postcrash fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N31HE
- Reported as
- Elliott Emeraude
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1225
- Airframe hours
- 391
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D2, 135 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Elliott, Henry D.
- Registered owner
- Elliott, Henry D.
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 15, 1990 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- SFB · Sanford, FL
- Airport
- X55 · Mid-Florida Airport, runway 18, 3,000 × 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 389 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFB, 23 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.