- Date
- July 28, 1991, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Killen, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N174PHHinton Kitfox
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910728030489A
- Case key
- 8444
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Probable cause
Weather conditions conducive to carburetor icing. A factor was the lack of a carburetor heat system on the engine.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During landing, a dog wandered onto the runway into the path of the landing roll. A go-around was begun, during which the engine lost power. Wires at the end of the rwy forced the pilot to duck under them and the airplane hit a pole. A mechanic ran the engine afterwards and nothing was found to preclude normal operation. He also noted that the carburetor mount insulated the carburetor from the engine heat and no carburetor heat system was installed. Humidity conditions were conducive to carburetor icing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N174PH
- Reported as
- Hinton Kitfox
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 174
- Airframe hours
- 163
- Engine
- Rotax 532LC, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hinton, Paul M.
- Registered owner
- Hinton, Paul M.
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 3, 1991 · 25 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 3, 1,000 × 80 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 327 total · 189 in this make and model · 21 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSL, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.