- Date
- April 27, 1993, 16:05 local (21:05 UTC)
- Place
- Paducah, KY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6126SAir & Space 18-A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930427027749A
- Case key
- 37321
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Probable cause
The inadequate supervision by the flight instructor resulting in a loss of directional control while conducting a simulated emergency, and the subsequent collision with the terrain during a roll over.
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 instructor was conducting a commercial pilot flight check in the gyroplane. The maneuver involved in the accident was an abort after 'liftoff at low airspeed and high angle of attack.' The instructor pilot said, 'a lift-off was executed at too low [an] airspeed, the abort was delayed because runway alignment was lost, and the nose strut gave way after soft dirt was encountered after leaving the asphalt.' The gyroplane rolled over on the side.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6126S
- Reported as
- Air & Space 18-A
- Category
- Gyroplane
- Serial number
- 18-32
- Airframe hours
- 274
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Farrington Aircraft, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Farrington Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1993 · 22 hours before
- Airport
- KY29 · Farrington Airpark, runway 22, 2,915 × 60 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
- 70
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 4,000 in this make and model · 150 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6126S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.