- Date
- August 13, 1990
- Place
- Montgomery, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N32324Micalizio BD-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900813047819I
- Case key
- 36485
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the homebuilt airplane while performing initial high-speed taxi tests. The pilot's lack of flight experience in the accident make and model airplane was a related factor.
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
As part of the initial testing of the homebuilt airplane, the pilot was performing repeated high speed taxi runs on the runway. On the eighth or ninth run the airplane became airborne. The pilot stated that the airplane banked sharply to the left, and when he reduced power to touch down the airplane sank into the ground on the left side of the runway. The pilot completed building the kit airplane in 1983. Since that time, he had run the engine and taxied the airplane for 80 hours, but had no flight experience in the make and model airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32324
- Reported as
- Micalizio BD-5
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2827
- Engine
- Honda EB3-2063159, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Micalizio, John R.
- Airport
- MGJ · Montgomery Orange County, runway 21, 5,006 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,023 total · 913 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 82 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SWF, 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.