ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 39474
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| Date: | Saturday 5 November 1983 |
| Time: | 17:05 |
| Type: | Eipper Quicksilver MX |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | unreg. |
| MSN: | NONE |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Elwin, IL -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Elwin, IL |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
THE PLT POSSESSED A STUDENT PLT & 3RD CLASS MEDICAL CERTIFICATE. AFTER TAKEOFF, HE CIRCLED OVER THE AIRFIELD, THEN CLIMBED TO ABOUT 200 FT AGL. A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE STATED THAT THE ULTRALIGHT THEN ENTERED A NOSE HIGH ATTITUDE & APPEARED TO ENTER A PRACTICE STALL MANEUVER. BASED ON WITNESS OBSERVATIONS, THE ULTRALIGHT ENTERED THIS MANEUVER FROM ABOUT 150 TO 250 FT AGL. THE ULTRALIGHT THEN WENT INTO A NOSE LOW ATTITUDE & CRASHED. NO EVIDENCE OF A PREIMPACT FAILURE/MALFUNCTION OF THE ULTRALIGHT WAS FOUND. CAUSE:
Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001214X45012
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 15 May 1983 | UNREG | San Diego Ultralight Park | 0 | Lakeside, CA | |
w/o |
| 15 May 1983 | Unreg. | San Diego Ultralight Park | 0 | Lakeside, CA | |
w/o |
| 29 November 1993 | UNREG | Private | Newark, TX | |
sub | |
| 29 November 1993 | unreg. | private | 1 | Newark, TX | |
sub |
| 7 May 2011 | UNREG | Todd Alan Tollefson | 0 | Crookston, Minnesota | |
sub |
| Loss of control | ||||||
| 15 August 2015 | UNREG | 0 | Pittsboro, North Carolina | |
sub | |
| Fuel starvation | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Oct-2008 10:30 | ASN archive | Added |
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