- Date
- September 9, 1992, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cave Junction, OR
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- UNREGQuicksilver MXL II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 42898
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Probable cause
The pilot's poor visual lookout. Factors include a static wire in the area of flight.
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.
In flight collision with object
Visual lookout - poorCause
Object - wire,staticFactor
Analysis
The pilot of the two place ultralight was cruising over a river canyon when the aircraft impacted a static wire which the pilot had not seen.
Aircraft
- Registration
- UNREG
- Reported as
- Quicksilver MXL II
- Category
- Ultralight
- Serial number
- 320
- Airframe hours
- 95
- Engine
- Rotax 582, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pittman, Jack L.
- Registered owner
- Pittman, Jack L.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 150 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F