Accident · 2002-09-13

What the record says

Event date

2002-09-13

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Minkler Venture M20 (N360)

Operating rule

Part 91

Operator

Tommy E. Rose Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

Tommy E. Rose

Probable cause

the overload failure of the horizontal stabilizers and elevators due to a pilot induced oscillation at a speed at or above Vne, which exceeded the design stress limits of the structure. Also causal was the intentional alteration by an unknown person or persons of the elevator down spring assembly, which likely reduced the stick force per G from a nominal 10 pounds to less than 1, and led to the pilot induced oscillation. An additional cause was the pilot's decision to operate the aircraft at, above, or near never exceed speed.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.