- Date
- June 15, 1991, 11:47 local (17:47 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N27JDDuffy Smith Mini Plane
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910615021959A
- Case key
- 41450
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Probable cause
A premature liftoff and subsequent stall.
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 acft drifted toward the side of the runway during takeoff roll and the pilot initiated a takeoff at a low airspeed in a nose high attitude. He attempted to abort the takeoff at a low altitude. The acft impacted the ground beside the rwy in a right bank, nose low attitude and cartwheeled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N27JD
- Reported as
- Duffy Smith Mini Plane (SMITH MINI)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James W. Duffy
- Registered owner
- James W. Duffy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- OGD · Ogden, runway 16, 5,352 × 150 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 441 total · 420 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 30 °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.