MIA84FA017 · Hight Smaragd CP-301-S
Hight Smaragd CP-301-S · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From SGI · ST AUGUSTINE, FL to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA84FA017
- 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
Hight Smaragd CP-301-S
- Aircraft type
- Hight Smaragd CP-301
- 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
- N42RH
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From SGI · ST AUGUSTINE, FLTo 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- 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
- Stall
- 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 › Airspeed, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE OWNER/BUILDER/PLT OF THE HOME BUILT ACFT & A PASSENGER (A FOREIGN VISITOR) WERE ON A LOCAL FLT ALONG A BEACH AREA. THE PURPOSE OF THE FLT WAS FOR THE VISITOR TO TAKE SOME VIDEO TAPE FOOTAGE WITH THE VIDEO CAMERA THAT HE TOOK ALONG. WITNESSES, INCLUDING A FRIEND OF THE VISITOR, SAW THE ACFT FLYING SLOW AT AN ALT OF APRX 100 FT AGL & 300 YARDS FROM THE BEACH. THEY REPORTED THAT THE ACFT WAS FLYING PARALLEL TO THE SHORE LINE WHEN IT PULLED UP IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE INITIATION OF A CLIMB. AT ABOUT THAT TIME, THE ACFT SUDDENLY FELL OFF ON THE RIGHT WING & ROLLED TO AN INVERTED, NOSE LOW ATTITUDE. REPORTEDLY, THE ACFT HAD ROLLED BACK TO A WINGS LEVEL ATTITUDE, AND WAS RECOVERING FROM A DIVE, WHEN IT IMPACTED IN THE WATER. WITNESSES REPORTED THAT THE ENGINE WAS OPERATING AT A HIGH RPM (SCREAMING) WHEN THE ACFT CRASHED IN ABOUT A 45 DEG NOSE DOWN ATTITUDE. AN EXAM OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED NO PREIMPACT FAILURES.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA84FA017
- Event ID
- 20001214X44905
- Case number
- MIA84FA017
- 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: b074a7d06d3ed5b08a0a0d0a53c4c9f2b905de5649771eb0ba95dd6083668afa; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:59:06.828Z.