- Date
- March 15, 1993, 10:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sheridan, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N569FBarr Kitfox II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930315005289A
- Case key
- 42997
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Probable cause
A partial power loss for undetermined reasons. Factors include a strong crosswind on landing.
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
During the initial climb, the aircraft experienced a partial power loss. Because they felt that they could not safely return to the airport, the pilots made a decision to attempt a forced landing on a nearby dirt road. During the landing roll in a strong crosswind, the aircraft's rudder became ineffective as the aircraft slowed. The instructor pilot was unable to keep the aircraft from weather vaning into the wind and departing the side of the road. As the airplane departed the road it impacted a nearby fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N569F
- Reported as
- Barr Kitfox II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 569
- Airframe hours
- 81
- Engine
- Rotax 582DI, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hanson, Larry R.
- Registered owner
- Hanson, Larry R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 10, 1993 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- SHR
- Destination
- SHR
- Airport
- SHR · Sheridan County, runway 23, 5,037 × 150 ft, dirt
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
- 45
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,901 total · 548 in this make and model · 2,623 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.