- Date
- July 6, 1995, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Venice, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2175LKashpureff Nieuport II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950706016629A
- Case key
- 37796
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's inability to maintain airspeed after encountering a sudden wind shift after lift off resulting in an inadvertent stall, uncontrolled descent, and ground collision.
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 climbing through 25 feet after takeoff the wind shifted. The aircraft lost airspeed, stalled, and descended uncontrolled to ground impact.
Factual narrative
On July 6, 1995, about 1500 eastern daylight time, a Kashpureff Nieuport II, N2175L, registered to the pilot, landed hard when control was lost during takeoff from Venice Municipal Airport, Venice, Florida, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft received substantial damage and the commercial-rated pilot was not injured. The flight was originating at the time of the accident.
The pilot stated that while climbing through 25 feet agl after takeoff the wind shifted and the aircraft stopped flying. The aircraft descended and landed hard in the turf adjacent to the runway.
Automated weather observing system data from the Venice Municipal Airport showed a wind shift from the northeast to the north occurred about the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2175L
- Reported as
- Kashpureff Nieuport II (NIEUPORT I)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- EVK-001
- Airframe hours
- 6
- Engine
- Volkswagen 1835CC, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eugene V. Kashpureff
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 21, 1995 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- VNC
- Airport
- VNC · Venice Municipal, runway 4, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,517 total · 6 in this make and model · 1,395 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VNC, 1 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.