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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Ruffell David Lewis RIDGE RUNNER MDL II · St Charles, MO · August 28, 2016

Date
August 28, 2016 · 14:00 local
Place
St Charles, MO
Airport
Smart Field
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N851DR
Reported as
Ruffell David Lewis Ridge Runner MDL II
Reported engine
Continental/Teledyne 4A084
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
140 in this make and model

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot took off from Smart Field, engine sputtered momentarily and later consequently failed, pilot could not make it back to the runway and landed 1/2 mile from runway 1/4 mile into a bean field.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TOOK OFF FROM SMART FIELD, ENGINE SPUTTERED MOMENTARILY AND LATER CONSEQUENTLY FAILED, PILOT COULD NOT MAKE IT BACK TO THE RUNWAY AND LANDED 1/2 MILE FROM RUNWAY 1/4 MILE INTO A BEAN FIELD.