- Date
- May 23, 1987, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Peterborough, NH
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N22QTHuffman Quickie Q2
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30456
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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
At 0939 EDT, the acft departed syracuse, NY, on a flt to nashua, NH. Subsequently, it was rprtd missing. A search was initiated, but the acft was not found until it was discovered by a hiker aprx 2 months later. The acft had crashed below a mtn top near Peterborough, NH. Initial impact was with trees on rising trrn at an elev of aprx 2000'. The acftcame to rest after hitting svrl trees & traveling about 100' from the initial impact point. No preimpact mechanical malfunction or failure of the acft was rprtd. An odor of fuel was noted, though the acft had remained inverted for APRX2 months. During a period from 0751 to 0951 EDT at manchester, NH, the ceiling went from an estd 5000' bkn, 15,000' bknto 1000' ovc. During the same period at concord, NH, the ceiling went from 4000' bkn, 8000' bkn to 800' bkn, 1900' ovc;at 1014 EDT, the ceiling at concord was 1100' ovc; then at 1052, it increased to 1700' at 1052
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22QT
- Reported as
- Huffman Quickie Q2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2182
- Airframe hours
- 358
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100DQ, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stanley C. Nicola
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 23, 1985 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- SYR · Syracuse, NY
- Destination
- ASH · Nashua, NH
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 67
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 11,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg