CHI95FA301 · Kiesel Easy VARIEZE
Kiesel Easy VARIEZE · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water during initial climb
From Dwight Airport (DTG) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI95FA301
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Kiesel Easy VARIEZE
- Aircraft type
- Kiesel Easy VARIEZE
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N17BK
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Dwight Airport (DTG)To not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Witnesses said the homebuilt airplane accelerated slowly during its takeoff roll. They said the airplane used almost the entire runway before lifting off. They said the airplane's landing gear, followed by its left wing, struck the corn located about 115 feet from the runway's departure end. The airplane collided with the ground about 360 feet from the beginning of the corn field and burned. According to the airport manager, the wind was coming from the south at 2 to 3 miles per hour. The builder of the airplane said the airplane required about 2,500 feet for its takeoff roll before it would lift off. The departure airport's runway was 2,368 feet long. He said it did not climb as well as other airplanes he was familiar with. A friend of the accident pilot said the airplane '...loves the ground...' during takeoff. The on-scene investigation revealed no anomalies with the engine or control system that would prevent flight.
Probable cause
inadequate preflight planning by the pilot. A factor associated with this accident was the pilot did not perform an aborted takeoff is sufficient time to safely stop.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI95FA301
- Event ID
- 20001207X04435
- Case number
- CHI95FA301
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d9ac9bd838e793ca2c985326e34e1f8457a4bc6a7693b4910f090010c8e60093; retrieved 2026-09-20T23:38:47.494Z.