- Date
- January 28, 1993, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Apopka, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4HFFerran DOMINATOR-BIG ONE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930128002489A
- Case key
- 33221
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Probable cause
Undetermined.
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 pilot was flying an experimental homebuilt gyroplane in the designated flight test area. Witnesses heard a loud noise and heard the airplane crash. No eyewitnesses were located. The gyroplane was almost consumed by fire and no determination of preexisting failures could be made.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4HF
- Reported as
- Ferran DOMINATOR-BIG ONE (DOMINATOR-)
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- HAF OO1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ferran, Harry A.
- Registered owner
- Ferran, Harry A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- X04 · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- X04
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
- 56
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,349 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 13 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.