- Date
- July 18, 1989, 14:24 local (18:24 UTC)
- Place
- Ithaca, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N71793Luscombe 8A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36442
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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Probable cause
A loss of control on takeoff due to improper takeoff techniques.
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 - on ground/water
Lift-off - prematureCause
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertentCause
Analysis
The pilot reported he became airborne prematurely, bounced, stalled, veered and finally departed the right side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71793
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3220
- Airframe hours
- 3,685
- Engine
- Continental A-65-8F, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Sharpiro
- Registered owner
- Neil Stoneman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 1989 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- ITH · Ithaca, runway 19, 1,802 × 100 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,400 total · 10 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 105 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ITH