Brown STEEN SKYBOLT N14BB

Summary

On 22 August 2009 at about 00:10 local time, a Brown STEEN SKYBOLT registered N14BB was involved in an accident near Harrison, Ohio, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

22 August 2009 at 00:10

Classification

Accident

Location

Harrison, Ohio, United States

Nearest airport

Cincinnati West (I67)

Coordinates

39.2589, -84.7744

Aircraft

Brown STEEN SKYBOLT

Registration

N14BB

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Harrison → Harrison

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN09LA536

2 people died.

The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

A witness reported that after the airplane lifted off, it proceeded “straight-and-level” down the runway about 50 feet above ground level (agl). When the airplane reached the end of the runway, it pitched up into a “very steep” climb angle of about 45-50 degrees. The climb continued to approximately 200 feet agl, when the airplane entered a left turn to an easterly heading. However, the airplane continued banking to the left until it became inverted. At that point, the nose of the airplane was “pointed almost straight down. The plane continued to spin to the left until it disappeared from sight behind the fence.” The airplane impacted terrain southeast of the departure end of the runway. A post accident examination did not reveal any anomalies associated with a pre impact failure or malfunction of the airframe or engine. Fractures of the pilot control stick and mating control rod were due to overstress separation resulting from the impact sequence.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.