- Date
- January 18, 1988, 18:01 local (Jan 19, 1988, 00:01 UTC)
- Place
- Little Rock Afb, AR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N748BCMeyer VARI-EZE
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880118000949A
- Case key
- 34463
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Pilot received a wx briefing and was told VFR was not recommended. The pilot did not file a flight plan and flew an aircraft not equipped for IFR into weather with 100-feet obscured ceiling and .3 mile visibility. The aircraft crashed into the ground at a pitch attitude of 60-degrees nose down.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N748BC
- Reported as
- Meyer VARI-EZE
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2203
- Engine
- Continental 65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carol E. Meyer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- I42 · Pooli, IN
- Destination
- M99 · Benton, AR
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 400 in this make and model · 500 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 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.