According to the pilot, during the initial climb, he realized that the Sport Cruiser’s canopy was not latched properly and had opened.
He attempted to secure the canopy, but was unsuccessful.
He decided to terminate the flight and land, however his airspeed was too fast during the touchdown and the airplane landed hard at the airport in Sacramento, California.
[Read more…]According to the pilot in the experimental amateur-built airplane, he was conducting a flight test. During the takeoff roll at the airport in Franklin, Pennsylvania, he applied “too much aft stick,” and the airplane entered an unintentional steep climb at a low airspeed.
The Zenith CH750 rolled left about 30°, he corrected to the right, and the airplane’s nose dropped.
The pilot added he may have reduced the throttle and overcorrected to the right. The airplane stalled and hit the ground.
[Read more…]After takeoff for an instructional flight, when the Cessna 172 reached 1,800′ mean sea level, the student pilot began a left turn toward the destination.
Shortly after, the engine went silent and stopped producing power.
[Read more…]The pilot reported that, during takeoff following a touch-and-go landing at the airport in Everett, Washington, the engine gauge readings appeared normal.
The Cessna 172 lifted off the ground about 65 knots, and he applied nosedown pressure to stay in ground effect.
The airplane was not climbing nor was the airspeed increasing, so he lowered the nose further.
[Read more…]During a night approach, the runway precision approach path indicator lights indicated that the Van’s RV-10 was on a proper glidepath, according to the pilot.
Shortly after, the plane encountered a “strong gust of wind” and “lost significant altitude.”
[Read more…]According to the pilot of the experimental amateur-built gyroplane, during a solo cross-country flight, he became lost and decided to follow a nearby highway.
Unfamiliar with the area, he exhausted the gyroplane’s fuel supply and landed on a highway near Spanish Fork, Utah.
The gyroplane’s nosewheel hit a passing car, but the gyroplane was able to touch down and stop on the right shoulder of the highway.
[Read more…]According to the pilot, he took off at night from the airport in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and during the initial climb about 800′ above the ground, the Cessna 402 ran into a flock of birds.
[Read more…]The pilot reported that, while making a straight-in approach to a private airport in Plato Center, Illinois, just after dusk, but before dark, he attempted to activate the pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), but was unsuccessful.
He continued toward the airport, and while maneuvering for landing, he lost sight of the airport. He didn’t regain visual reference of the airport during the landing descent, and the airplane hit a fence adjacent to the runway.
[Read more…]According to the pilot of the tailwheel-equipped, experimental airplane, the Golden Circle Air T Bird II bounced to the left side of the runway at the airport in Wiscassett, Maine, during the takeoff roll.
He thought the airplane would “straighten itself out.”
[Read more…]The student pilot reported that, during her first solo landing in Clermont, Florida, the glider was “not straight” for the flare, and she attempted to correct with right rudder.
Subsequently, she overcorrected, and the glider veered right and hit a hangar.
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