# Incident 20010324025159I: Extra EA400, Phoenix, AZ, March 24, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 24, 2001, 12:30 local time
- Place: Phoenix, AZ
- Airport: Phoenix-Deer Valley Municipal Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.6883° N, 112.0826° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PHOENIX DEER VALLEY (DVT), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.6883&lon=-112.0826&mi=10
- Aircraft: N14EX, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N14EX) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Extra Flugzeugbau EA-400 (registry code 7021804, https://openairdocs.org/model/extra-flugzeugbau-ea-400) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550 series (registry code 17042, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: EXTRA EA400
- Reported engine: CONT TSIOL550C
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 5,900 total, 75 in this make and model, 75 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010324025159I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON MARCH 24, 2001 AN EXTRA EA-400 (N14EX) WAS ON A SALES DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT WITH AN ATP RATED PILOT AT THE CONTROLS. WHILE RETURNING BACK TO DEERVALLEY AIRPORT THE ENGINE EXPERIENCED A TOTAL POWER FAILURE. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD NOTICED A TOTAL OIL PRESSURE DROP 30 SECONDS BEFORE THE ENGINE FAILED. THE PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT ON A SERVICE ROAD NEXT TO INTERSTATE 17, 5 MILES FROM DVT. THE PILOT HAD DECIDED TO LAND THE AIRCRAFT GEAR UP BECAUSE THE NEED TO CLEAR A LINE OF TREES AND THERE WAS NO TIME TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR. A REVIEW OF THE AIRCRAFT SHOWED THAT THERE WAS DAMAGE TO THE LOWER SURFACE AND ONE WING TIP CAUSED BY THE EMERGENCY LANDING. A PRELIMINARY INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT AT THE CUTTER HANGER REVEALED THAT THE UPPER COWLING HAD A HOLE IN IT FROM THE PISTON COMING THRU THE ENGINE. THERE WAS VERY LITTLE OIL AT THE HOLE AND MUCH OF THE OIL HAD DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT OUT THE BACK OF THE ENGINE AND BOTTOM OF AIRCRAFT. THE ENGINE WAS SENT TO WESTERN SKYWAYS IN MONTROS CO FOR TEAR DOWN. NO FAA PERSONNEL WERE PRESENT, HTE CONTINENTAL ENGINE REPRESENTATIVE AND PERSONS FOR THE INSURANCE AND SALE REPS WERE PRESENT. THE OIL FILTER HAD BEEN REMOVED PRIOR TO THE TEARDOWN.

## Other reports on N14EX (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20180310001849I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180310001849I), Mar 10, 2018: Extra Flugzeugbau Gmbh EA-400 (N14EX), Rocy Mount, NC, Minor damage. [privacy data omitted] Was piloting an Extra 400 from fayetteville, NC to leesburg, VA (jyo). He was on an IFR flight plan and leveled off at cruise altitude…

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.

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