# Accident 20080530834429A: Amtr LANCAIR, Murrieta/Temec, CA, May 30, 2008

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 30, 2008, 11:50 local time
- Place: Murrieta/Temec, CA
- Airport: French Valley
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.5844° N, 117.1169° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.5844&lon=-117.1169&mi=10
- Aircraft: N109DC, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N109DC-2010-04-08) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Poulin L/Cullen D LEGACY (registry code 05622IQ, https://openairdocs.org/model/poulin-l-cullen-d-legacy) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550-N (registry code 17215, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMTR LANCAIR
- Reported engine: CONT IO550N
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Pilot flight hours: 600 total, 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB SEA08LA145](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA08LA145) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080530834429A

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON APPROACH TO LANDING, AT AN ESTIMATED DISTANCE OF ONE AND A QUARTER MILES. FROM THE END OF THE RUNWAY AIRCRAFT CRASHED INTO A FIELD NORTH OF RUNWAY 18. THE EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS SAID THE ENGINE MADE A LOUD NOISE AND THEN THE AIRCRAFT ROLLED OVER ON THE LEFT WING, INVERTED ROLLED 180 DEGREES AND WENT VERTICALLY INTO THE GROUND. THE CRASH SITE AND WRECKAGE INDICATED THE AIRCRAFT WAS NEAR VERTICAL ON IMPACT. THE WRECKAGE WAS CONFINED TO APPROXIMATELY 100 SQUARE METERS. FUSELAGE DISINTERGRATED ON IMPACT, WINGS EXCEPT SPAR DISINTEGRATED, TAIL SECTION AFT OF COCKPIT AREA WAS INTACT. PROPELLER WAS NOT UNDER POWER WHEN THE AIRCRAFT HIT THE GROUND. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF FUEL IN THE WINGS OR IN THE ENGNE. THERE WAS NO SIGN OFFUEL ON THE GROUND OR ON THE SURROUNDING PLANTS, OR GROUND, NO FUEL ODOR WAS PRESENT AT THE CRASH SITE.

## 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 SEA08LA145](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA08LA145), May 30, 2008: Poulin L/Cullen D Lancair Legacy (N109DC), Murrieta, CA, destroyed, 2 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in the loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, and the pilot's failure to maintain flying speed, which resulted in an inadvertent…

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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