- Date
- July 14, 1985, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ames, IA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N657DHde Havilland DH 82A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850714044799A
- Case key
- 33995
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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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 owner had given the plt permission to fly the acft & the plt elected to take a passenger in the front seat. After the accident, the plt stated that he was making a hi speed taxi run on the grass on the right side of the rwy. He reported that the lower right wing impacted a rwy marker, the acft veered to the right; then the left gear failed & the tail rose high enough for the prop to hit the ground & break. However, the passenger said that the acft was airborne when she looked in the mirror & saw the plt grab for his hat. The next thing she recalled was that the acft hit something, then veered & came nose down on the grass terrain. Reportedly, the rwy marker was one that was remaining from a period when the rwy was a broad grass strip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N657DH
- Reported as
- de Havilland DH 82A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- PG 657
- Airframe hours
- 1,640
- Engine
- Bristol GIPSY MAJOR, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William R. Petrone
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 19, 1984 · 15 hours before
- Airport
- AMW · Ames Muni, runway 19, 3,747 × 160 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 4,121 total · 1 in this make and model · 3,848 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.