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 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:24 am Post subject: N289DT preliminary report NYC08LA023 |
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NTSB Identification: *NYC08LA023*
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Friday, November 02, 2007 in Greenville, PA
Aircraft: Vans Aircraft RV-10, registration: N289DT
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain
errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final
report has been completed.
On November 2, 2007, at 0830 eastern daylight time, an amateur built
Vans RV-10, N289DT, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain
near Greenville, Pennsylvania. The certificated private pilot was
fatally injured. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the
local flight that departed Greenville Municipal Airport (4G1),
Greenville, Pennsylvania. No flight plan was filed for the personal
flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
According to a family member, the pilot had driven to the airport to
practice "touch and go's" and to make sure everything was functioning
properly, prior to a planned afternoon trip in the airplane with his
family to Boston, Massachusetts.
Witness interviews were conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) and the Safety Board, and while no one saw the airplane depart
4G1, the airplane was observed by a witness at approximately 0800
traveling in a northwesterly direction at low altitude, moving "fast,"
and sounding like it was "running strong like a Ford Mustang
(turbocharged) Cobra that the witness once owned." At approximately
0825, the airplane was again observed but, this time by multiple
witnesses. Descriptions varied between witness statements as to the
altitude, direction of flight, and velocity of the airplane; however,
the preponderance of witness statements were that the airplane was
flying north on the east side of Pennsylvania State Route 58, and seemed
to make a circle to the left at approximately 500 feet above ground
level (agl). It was next observed to travel in a westerly direction, fly
across Route 58 and make another turn to the left with the engine
"revving up and down," and losing altitude. When it reached
approximately 50-feet agl and was heading east, the airplane rolled
wings level and impacted a cornfield in a 35 to 60 degree nose down
attitude. A fireball erupted, and the airplane slid approximately
100-feet. It then impacted the shoulder of Route 58, nosed over, and
came to rest inverted on the roadway.
The amateur built airplane, was a four place, low wing monoplane. It was
equipped with a non-certificated Eggenfellner E6T/220, which was a water
cooled, fuel injected, turbo-charged, six cylinder engine. The
airplane's special airworthiness certificate was issued on July 10, 2007.
The pilot held a private pilot certificate, with a rating for airplane
single engine land. His most recent FAA third class medical certificate
was issued on March 14, 2006. According to his pilot logbook, he had
accrued 221.4 total hours of flight experience.
A weather observation taken about 23 minutes after the accident at Port
Meadville Airport (GKJ), Meadville, Pennsylvania, located about 14
nautical miles northeast of the accident site, recorded the winds as 090
degrees at 4 knots, visibility 10 miles, sky clear, temperature 1 degree
Celsius, dew point -2 degrees Celsius, and an altimeter setting of 30.36
inches of mercury.
The wreckage was retained by the Safety Board for further examination.
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