Rose PARRAKEET A-1 N14842

Summary

On 12 July 2018 at about 18:30 local time, a Rose PARRAKEET A-1 registered N14842 was involved in an accident near Rhome, Texas, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

12 July 2018 at 18:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Rhome, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Fairview Airport (7TS0)

Coordinates

33.1006, -97.4264

Aircraft

Rose PARRAKEET A-1

Registration

N14842

Category

Airplane

Year built

1936

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Rhome → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN18FA265

1 person died.

The pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack after takeoff, 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

The private pilot had just departed from the airport when witnesses observed the airplane not climbing and about 100 ft above the ground. Another witness observed the airplane a nose-high attitude. The airplane was struggling to gain altitude before it banked "hard" to the right, entered a "sharp" nose-down attitude, and impacted a field near the airport. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. The ground scarring at the accident site, the crush angle of the airframe, and the observed wing drop before the airplane's descent into terrain were consistent with an exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack and a resulting aerodynamic stall.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.