- Date
- September 6, 1991, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Keene, NH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N91JKHomebuilt Avid Flyer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910906038649A
- Case key
- 36766
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Probable cause
A loss of control due to improper use of the flight controls. Factors related to the accident were the pilot's lack of experience in make and model.
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 pilot experienced a loss of control immediately after liftoff and struck the ground. He then proceeded to remove the airplane from the accident site and disassemble it prior to notification of the ntsb/faa. The pilot said the loss of control was caused by a tailwheel string coming disconnected while taxiing onto the runway. The FAA report stated they could find no evidence that a disconnected tailwheel spring would affect the flight controls in flight. The pilot listed his total time as 124 hours with 20 hours in make and model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91JK
- Reported as
- Homebuilt Avid Flyer
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 306
- Airframe hours
- 35
- Engine
- Rotax 532, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph T. Kohler
- Registered owner
- Joseph T. Kohler
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- EEN · Dillant-Hopkins, runway 32, 3,299 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 124 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.