2010 – N444YP – Gregory Crane – Velocity XL/RG – San Diego, CA – 2

Crashed after departure from San Diego, door departed in flight and crashed on a golf course landing upside down. 1 man and 3 children injured, 1 woman fatally injured. News account. Eyewitness accounts say that he maneuvered to the left to avoid a pole, and that is when the left wing struck the ground causing […]

2010 – N144TJ – Richard Huges – Cozy III – Pine Bluff, AR – 0

Canopy came open in flight, landed off airport. The airplane was in cruise flight when the right-side hinged cockpit canopy suddenly opened to about a 90-degree up position. The pilot’s headset and several other loose items in the cockpit exited the airplane. The pilot subsequently experienced a “large vibration” in the engine. With the engine […]

2010 – N68TF – Stephen James – Cozy IV – Las Vegas, NV – 0

Deep stall accident due, apparently, to improper canard incidence. On April 16, 2010, at 0830 Pacific daylight time, an experimental Bibbee Cozy Mark (MK) IV, N68TF, collided with terrain near North Las Vegas, Nevada. The pilot/owner was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91. The commercial pilot […]

2009 – N45YV – Olef Simonsen – Velocity SE/FG – Katy, TX – 1

Crashed shortly after installing a new prop. This accident is a little troubling to me, because the available pictures look like it came straight down on it’s roof, which is really odd for a Velocity. Maybe there’s something that the pictures don’t show, but it doesn’t seem to have skidded or tumbled. UPDATE: After reading […]

2008 – N637PS – Leonard Johnson – Cozy IV – Osceola, MO – 0

Forced landing after engine overheating. The private pilot was flying his homebuilt airplane on a cross-country flight at 5,500 feet mean sea level when he encountered some turbulence. The engine began to overheat and lose power and the pilot diverted to a nearby airport. The pilot could not make the runway and landed on a […]

2008 Incident Flight

Emergency Landing in Otisco, IN Saturday 27 September, 2008 Incident Newspaper picture The Brady song goes, “This is a story, of a lovely lady….”, and so this is, one who delivered us from great violence in a difficult environment. Many of you know that I’ve been collecting accident data on my website for some time, […]