- Date
- June 10, 1994, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bainbridge, GA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N89972Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940610045929A
- Case key
- 3398
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
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
The pilot reported that during practice agricultural spray runs, the aircraft engine RPM reduced to less than that required to maintain flight. The pilot attempted an emergency landing in a field. During the landing the aircraft wheels bogged in the soft terrain, and the aircraft nosed over.
Factual narrative
On June 10, 1994, at about 1100 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 140, N89972 was substantially damaged following a nose over during an emergency landing near Bainbridge, Georgia. The commercial/instructor pilot received serious injuries, and the student pilot was not injured in the accident. The aircraft was being operated under 14 CFR Part 91 by Harrell's Aviation Services, Incorporated of Bainbridge, Georgia. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the time, and no flight plan had been filed for the local agricultural training flight.
The pilot stated that while practicing agricultural spraying with a student, the aircraft engine revolutions per minute reduced to less than that required to maintain flight. An emergency landing was accomplished to a field, and during the roll out the aircraft nosed over in the soft terrain.
Examination of the aircraft engine by the local maintenance facility did not reveal any reason for the aircraft engine loss of power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89972
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9024
- Airframe hours
- 3,251
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Harrell'S Aviation Service
- Registered owner
- Balkcom, Wayne J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1994 · 58 hours before
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
- 65
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30,000 total · 160 in this make and model · 30,000 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 25 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.