- Date
- October 7, 1992, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Littletown, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4246RFranklin-Sullivan Technologies FS 1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37257
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Probable cause
Inadequate altitude due to an improperly planned approach which resulted in a tree strike on final approach.
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 was conducting an experimental flight test which called for an unpowered descent. The approach was initiated with both engines shut off. Initially the pilot was high on final and 's' turned to loose altitude. During the last 's' turn he noticed he was too low and struck a tree just short of the approach end of the runway. The airplane came to rest beyond the approach end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4246R
- Reported as
- Franklin-Sullivan Technologies FS 1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1
- Airframe hours
- 11
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 48 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Franklin Sullivan Technologies
- Registered owner
- Franklin Sullivan Technologies
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1991 · 11 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Prokopovitsh Farm, runway 18, 1,800 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,950 total · 11 in this make and model · 2,850 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F