# NTSB Accident CHI94LA288
> **Bede Aircraft BD-10** · 1994-08-27 · CHESTERFIELD, MO, USA · NONE
## Event
- **NTSB number:** CHI94LA288
- **Event ID:** 20001206X02010
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 1994-08-27
- **Location:** CHESTERFIELD, MO, USA
- **Coordinates:** 38.649681, -90.580589
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** NONE
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 2
- **Total aboard:** 2
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Bede Aircraft
- **Model:** BD-10
- **Registration:** N2BD
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

the canopy lock pin design which allowed the pilot to receive a 'closed and locked' indication without the canopy lock pin being engaged.  Factors were the pilots' intentional abort above rotation speed, the lack of developed takeoff and accelerate-stop distance performance data for the airplane in this flight regime.

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