# Accident 19980618014259A: Hawker T8C, Manchester, NH, June 18, 1998

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 18, 1998, 11:16 local time
- Place: Manchester, NH
- Airport: Manchester Airport-Grenier Indus
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.9590° N, 71.4525° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from the FAA’s distance and direction from , within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.9590&lon=-71.4525&mi=10
- Aircraft: N745WT, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N745WT-2013-02-11) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Hawker HAWKER HUNTER T8C (registry code 4231005, https://openairdocs.org/model/hawker-hawker-hunter-t8c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG (registry code 99999, https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: HAWKER T8C
- Reported engine: RROYCE AVON522
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 8,500 total, 236 in this make and model
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB NYC98FA129](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC98FA129) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980618014259A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ACFT WAS ON A TEST FLIGHT WAS ON FINAL TO RWY 17 IN VFR CONDITIONS. CRASHED UNDER UNK CIRCUM. (.4) THE VINTAGE EX-MILITARY JET WAS ON AN AIRWORTHINESS TEST FLIGHT AFTER A 12-YEAR REBUILDING PROCESS.  THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FLIGHT, AND WHILE ON APPROACH TO AN AIRPORT, THE PILOT ANNOUNCED OVER THE RADIO THAT HE WANTED TO CONDUCT MULTIPLE LANDINGS.  A LITTLE OVER 2 MINUTES LATER, HE STATED THAT THE AIRPLANE WOULD MAKE A FULL STOP, AND 7 SECONDS AFTER THAT, THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO EJECT.  THE ENGINE HAD FLAMED OUT, BUT THE PILOT STAYED WITH AIRPLANE UNTIL IT CLEARED A CROWDED PARKING LOT.  THE PILOT DID NOT SURVIVE THE LOW TRAJECTORY EJECTION. POST-ACCIDENT ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT ONE FUEL GAUGE WAS FROZEN AROUND 575 POUNDS, WHILE THE OTHER HAD A NEEDLE SLAP MARK AT 740 POUNDS.  ALL FOUR FUSELAGE FUEL TANKS WERE FOUND EMPTY, WHILE BOTH INBOARD WING TANKS CONTAINED SOME FUEL. THE AMOUNT OF FUEL IN THE WING TANKS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT WAS UNDETERMINED DUE TO TANK LEAKAGE FROM THE IMPACT.                         (-23) AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM EST, THE PILOT WAS CONDUCTING AN INITIAL TEST FLIGHT OF THE AIRCRAFT.  EVERYTHING APPEARED TO BE NORMAL.  PILOT RADIOE D IN ON FINAL APPROACH TO MANCHESTER THAT HE WAS EJECTING. THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED THE GROUND APPROXIMATELY 1/4 MILE FROM THE END OF THE RUNWAY.  UPON INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT, NO FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE CENTER OR FORWARD FUEL TANKS.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB NYC98FA129](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC98FA129), Jun 18, 1998: Hawker Hunter T MK 8 (N745WT), Manchester, NH, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: Fuel exhaustion, resulting from the pilot's reliance on an inaccurate fuel quantity indicating system. A factor in the pilot's death was his intentional delay of the ejection sequence in order to…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.