NYC98LA104 · Hispano Aviacion HA200B SAETA HA200B SAE
Hispano Aviacion HA200B SAETA HA200B SAE · Accident: in flight collision with object en route
From Greene County/Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport (I19) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC98LA104
- 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
- 2 · 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
Hispano Aviacion HA200B SAETA HA200B SAE
- Aircraft type
- Hispano Aviacion HA200
- 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
- N9108Q
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Greene County/Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport (I19), OHTo 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 object
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- 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 › Aerobatics, performed
- Pilot in command › Altitude/clearance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot/owner of the airplane and a prospective buyer departed on a demonstration flight. The airplane was observed performing several low passes at the departure airport, one of which resulted in a 360 degree roll. During the climb out the airplane was observed to roll inverted and attempt a 'split S' just prior to disappearing below a tree line. A witness stated she suddenly hear the load roar of a very close jet powered airplane, looked out the window and observed an airplane flying about 40 feet above the ground, 'fast and reasonably level.' The airplane then nosed over and crashed. The majority of the wreckage was scattered for about 300 feet on a northerly heading and several parts of the wreckage were consumed by a post crash fire. Two broken limbs were observed atop a 75 foot tall tree, located about 110 feet south of the initial ground impact point. About 90 feet north-northeast of the tree, a smaller tree, about 15 feet tall had numerous broken limbs. The tree line to the east of the wreckage path and the majority of trees in the accident site area were about 50 feet tall or less.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain altitude clearance with trees after an improper decision to perform low level aerobatics.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC98LA104
- Event ID
- 20001211X09946
- Case number
- NYC98LA104
- 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: eef43ce2f22b730d5134eed5a78fd57b25c3c320e34bf87638f56e7158895c6e; retrieved 2026-09-20T22:36:27.114Z.