- Date
- May 5, 1984, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1355KSoneria II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840505018339A
- Case key
- 33680
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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 of the home built acft was practicing touch-&-go landings. While climbing out after the 5th landing, the plt's canopy unlatched & opened. The plt attempted to close the canopy & nosed the acft down to maintain a safe airspeed. While trying to close the canopy, the acft descended & struck the rwy hard & bounced back in the air. The plt held the canopy partly closed and circle to land on rwy 4. Just before landing, he let go of the canopy & reduced the power. An inspection of the acft revealed the support tubing for the landing gear & the tailwheel support tube were bent. Also, aprx 4 inches had sheared from the tips of both prop blades.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1355K
- Reported as
- Soneria II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 344
- Airframe hours
- 38
- Engine
- Volkswagen UNKNOWN, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Patrick G. Lee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1983
- Departed
- KCK · Kansas City, KS
- Airport
- Fairfax Muni, runway 17, 7,301 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 367 total · 31 in this make and model · 305 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCI, 10 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.