- Date
- May 18, 1986, 17:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Mars, PA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- UNREGEipper Quicksilver MX2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30210
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Weather evaluation - inadequateCause
Compensation for wind conditions - not possibleCause
In flight collision with object
Object - wire,transmissionFactor
Analysis
Pilot, once airborne, passing a tree line, encountered a sudden gust of wind. The quicksilver ultra-lite, with one pax, was forced from its flight path into power lines causing the aircraft to crash. Both pilot and pax sustained serious injuries. Aircraft was destroyed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Eipper Quicksilver MX2 (QUICKSILVE)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 40 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond F. Tillilie
- Airport
- Lakehill
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg