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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI07CA275

2007-08-21 Plato Center, Illinois, United States Airport · LL53 Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N912GR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DAVID A WEAVER PULSAR SUPER 100

Year of manufacture

2022

Engine

ULPOWER UL350IS (130 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20220912

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9EBF

Registrant of record

WEAVER DAVID A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed. Factors were the pilot's lack of familiarity with the aircraft and pilot's failure to maintain altitude.

Factual narrative

The pilot was flying his homebuilt aircraft on its first flight. The pilot received a weather briefing approximately seven hours prior to the accident. He reported the preflight, takeoff and climb out were normal, but he "observed unusual turbulence" when he began a left turn to fly the traffic pattern. The pilot noticed that the engine oil temperature was nearing maximum and the oil pressure was fluctuating. The pilot aborted the first landing approach due to too fast of an airspeed. The pilot reported "I lowered the angle of final approach (no flaps) while attempting to maintain 80MPH. Less than .25 miles from touchdown, I attempted recover from pitching upward by reducing power (approx. 50 feet above corn field]. I had over-corrected on power reduction. There was no stall. The airplane had slowed and abruptly settled into the corn. My last control input...was to try pitching the nose as high as possible. " The pilot stated that the airplane settled to the ground in a slightly nose down attitude. The pilot reported the landing gear had extensive damage, the leading edge of the wings outboard of the fuel tanks and wing control surfaces were damaged. The pilot allowed the approach speed to deteriorate during landing, causing an unrecoverable loss in altitude. The pilot made an off-field landing into a corn field. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_2007_CHI07CA275.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall, turbulence). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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