Wheeler Doug 2000 accident near Ogden, UT
On July 17, 2002, a Wheeler Doug 2000 (gyroplane) was involved in an accident near Ogden, UT. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- July 17, 2002
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Aircraft
- Wheeler Doug 2000 · Gyroplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 41.196°N, 112.012°W
- NTSB ID
- 20020730X01251
Official records · DEN02FA076
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On July 16, 2002, approximately 1815 mountain daylight time, a Wheeler Doug 2000 gyrocraft, N2058T, was destroyed when it broke up in-flight and impacted the runway during initial climb after taking off from Ogden-Hinckley Airport, Ogden, Utah. The commercial pilot and a passenger were fatally injured. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the personal flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight was originating when the accident occurred. The operator built the gyroplane at the facilities of Industrial Supply, a company that he owned in Ogden. He planned to build additional gyroplanes from kits manufactured by Rotary Air Force, Inc., of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada, and formed another company, High Country Air, Inc., to market them. He contracted with Great Western Aviation, an Ogden flight school, to provide flight instructors who would be trained to fly and give flight instruction in the gyroplane. According to the gyroplane operator, the accident pilot was one of those instructors, and he had given him permission the use the gyroplane for the purpose of flying to a nearby church and dropping candy on children in the parking lot below. The pilot contacted the Ogden control tower and requested taxi clearance to runway 25 and advised that he had ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) information "Whiskey." Information Whiskey, recorded at 1755, was as follows (in part): wind, 280 degrees at 13 knots, gusts to 23 knots; temperature 31 degrees C.; dew point, 11 degrees C.; altimeter
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to obtain and maintain adequate main rotor rpm, resulting in blade flapping and subsequent blade contact with the airframe, severing of the tailboom, and causing loss of aircraft control. Contributing factors were the high gusty winds, and the pilot's lack of proper certification.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
