- Date
- August 22, 1984, 15:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Puyallup, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4416QHayes Quickie Q2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840822061539A
- Case key
- 39998
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt reported that he had placed 50 lbs of sand in the acft baggage compartment to complement the acft CG. During takeoff the acft was very nose heavy. He elected to make 2 landings at tacoma where the nose dropped severely while the plt attempted to flare. He then flew locally to burn fuel. After over an hour of flying he returned to tacoma for another landing. The same nose heavy tendency existed. The plt returned to Puyallup for landing where the acft dropped heavily and bounced. In a go-around attempt the acft nosed down and veered off the rwy. The manufacturer of the acft kithad published information in a newsletter about a year ago on ways to correct nose heaviness. This information had been sent to the owner/plt of N4416Q.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4416Q
- Reported as
- Hayes Quickie Q2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2684
- Airframe hours
- 10
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100D, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Johnny M. Hays
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- 1SO · Puyallup, WA
- Destination
- 1SO · Puyallup, WA
- Airport
- 1SO · Puyallup Industrial Airpk, runway 17, 3,300 × 40 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 10 in this make and model · 9,500 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TCM, 23 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.
Other investigations on N4416Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.