- Date
- October 25, 1988, 01:30 local (06:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lenexa, KS
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N39231Taylorcraft BC-12D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 26, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881025048249A
- Case key
- 34666
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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 PIC had been drinking alcoholic beverages before the flt and had taken the prescription anti-depresion drug pamelor. In combination, the adverse side-effects of the drug are magnified. The PIC decided to fly instead of drive to visit a friend working the night shift where he was also employed. After the visit, the PIC departed the local airport to fly 7 NM to a nearby airport where the aircraft had been hangared. The PIC only remembered flying along the interstate hwy, northwest of the departure airport prior to the crash. The impact occurred in the center median of the interstate hwy. interviews with the PIC revealed that he had also been drinking while flying the aircraft. Tox tests revealed that the pilot's blood alcohol level was .15%.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39231
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC-12D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6-A85
- Airframe hours
- 1,935
- Engine
- Continental A65-8F, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Vogel, Stan
- Registered owner
- Stanley E. Vogel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 6, 1988 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- OJC · Olathe, KS
- Destination
- IXD
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 992 total · 68 in this make and model · 917 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.