Stits Playboy SA3B Lightning accident near Kimball, NE
On September 30, 2005, a Stits Playboy SA3B Lightning (airplane) was involved in an accident near Kimball, NE. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- September 30, 2005
- Place
- Kimball, NE
- Aircraft
- Stits Playboy SA3B Lightning · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 41.188°N, 103.677°W
- NTSB ID
- 20051005X01583
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On September 30, 2005, about 1300 mountain daylight time, an experimental, amateur-built Stits Playboy SA3B Lightning, N4747G, was found with substantial damage about a 1/2 mile from the departure end of runway 28 at Robert E. Arraj Field (IBM), Kimball, Nebraska. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed on the day of the accident. The pilot was fatally injured. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was not operating on a flight plan. The flight originated about 1050 and was en route to Laramie, Wyoming. About 1035, the pilot called his wife just prior to the airplane being filled full of fuel by the fixed base operator (FBO) at IBM. About 1050, FBO personnel were leaving the airport when they saw the pilot begin his departure. PERSONNEL INFORMATION The pilot held a private pilot certificate with a single-engine land rating issued June 2, 1986. The pilot held a second class airman medical certificate dated September 9, 2002, with the following restriction: "Must have available glasses for near vision." A total flight time of 204 hours was reported at the date of his airman medical certificate issuance. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the pilot's medical certificate was expired at the time of the accident. At the time of the accident, the pilot accumulated a total time of approximately 240 hours, of which 15 hours were in the past 90 days, and 12 hours were in the make and model of the accident airplane. The FAA on-scene inspector reported that the majority of the 12 hours was cross country flight time. AIRCRAFT INFORMATION The 1964 S
Probable cause
The inadvertent stall and low airspeed by the pilot following takeoff. Contributing factors were the low altitude at the time of occurrence, the high density altitude, and the propeller.
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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.
