DFW07CA025 · Eiben Theodore Quickie Q-200
Eiben Theodore Quickie Q-200 · Accident: airframe, component or system failure during takeoff
From Denton Enterprise Airport (DTO) to Denton, TX
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW07CA025
- 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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
Eiben Theodore Quickie Q-200
- Aircraft type
- Eiben Theodore QUICKIE Q-200
- 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
- N218E
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Denton Enterprise Airport (DTO), Denton, TXTo Denton, TX
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The right wing of the single-engine tail-wheel equipped experimental airplane failed while the pilot was attempting the first takeoff of the day. The 325-hour private pilot, who reported having accumulated a total of 55-hours in the same make and model, had just lifted off runway 35 (a 5,999-foot long by 150-foot wide asphalt runway), when the airplane's "pitch control felt different, sort of sluggish like it wanted more speed." The pilot responded by leveling the airplane's attitude and increasing the airspeed to approximately 90 mph before rotating a second time. While approximately three feet above the runway, the airplane "abruptly rolled to the right as though something had broken." The airplane subsequently impacted the runway and the right wing, near mid span, folded upward striking the canopy. The airplane came to rest in an upright position and the pilot was able to exit the airplane unassisted. The pilot added that prior to takeoff all engine and airplane "functions" were operating normally. The pilot further reported that the composite homebuilt airplane had been constructed 17 years earlier and had accumulated approximate 425-hours total time.
Probable cause
The loss of control during takeoff as result of the failure of the right wing for undetermined reasons.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW07CA025
- Event ID
- 20070109X00033
- Case number
- DFW07CA025
- 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, coordinates. 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: cfcbbe16f6e0a60a937426fe99b9afc97ad2807ef762fd9d48c919d2de6b5a3a; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:14:44.636Z.