- Date
- April 7, 1991, 14:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Green Cove Spgs, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3025HErcoupe 415-C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910407009049A
- Case key
- 32847
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Loss of control while on approach to land due to failure of the pilot to maintain vs resulting in the airplane stalling and impacting the ground nose low.
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 final apch, the plt allowed the airspeed to decay. As a result the acft stalled, impacted the ground nose low & nosed over after the nose landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3025H
- Reported as
- Ercoupe 415-C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3650
- Airframe hours
- 2,261
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Copelin, Wallace Lee
- Registered owner
- Copelin, Wallace Lee
- Airport
- 7FL4 · Haller Airpark, runway 18, 2,600 × 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,575 total · 1,550 in this make and model · 90 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRG, 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.