- Date
- June 10, 1989, 15:37 local (22:37 UTC)
- Place
- Alderwood Manor, WA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8020EWhittaker Bushby Mustang 1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890610015049A
- Case key
- 40920
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed. Contributing factors were the pilot's poor judgement in flying a traffic pattern at tree-top level and a tailwind condition during the steep turn to final.
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
After making a low pass over the airport, the pilot flew a VFR traffic pattern at a low altitude. He initiated a steep left turn to final approach at 100 ft above the lake about 1 mile from the airport. The aircraft rolled further left, descended in a nose low attitude & impacted the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8020E
- Reported as
- Whittaker Bushby Mustang 1 (BUSHBY MUS)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 244
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jose Raul Franco
- Registered owner
- David E. Dean
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- OS8 · Port Orchard, WA
- Airport
- S13 · Martha Lake, runway 34, 1,700 × 40 ft, macadam
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 45 in this make and model · 45 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAE, 3 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.