- Date
- June 9, 1985, 11:25 local (16:25 UTC)
- Place
- Carlisle, IA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N33ETE.T. Meredith III Christen Eagle II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850609047759A
- Case key
- 33840
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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 aerobatic airplane had a total of 23.6 flight hours at the time of this accident. This accident pilot had flown 6.3 hours of that time. The aircraft log did not indicate any spin practice by this pilot in this airplane but did indicate three flights with spins by another pilot. This accident preceeded by 20 minutes of low altitude, high speed flight and aerobatics. Pilot appeared to have initiated a right spin at 500 to 1200 feet AGL. Spin continued to impact. Altimeter had not been set to zero altitude before takeoff.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33ET
- Reported as
- E.T. Meredith III Christen Eagle II (CHRISTEN E)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 01313
- Airframe hours
- 26
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- E.T. Meredith III
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- DSM · Des Moines, IA
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
- 43
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 8,900 total · 10 in this make and model · 75 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DSM, 8 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.