- Date
- June 4, 1986, 10:36 local (14:36 UTC)
- Place
- Myersville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7266BBeech J-35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860604031669A
- Case key
- 11209
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Analysis
While in cruise flight at 3500 feet the pilot stated he experienced a rapid loss of power. Unable to restart the engine, he was forced to land in a pasture which was divided by barbed wire fences. The aircraft collided with a fence and came to rest inverted. Teardown examination revealed that the crankshaft had failed between the #2 connecting rod bearing journal and the #2 main bearing journal. Laboratory examination disclosed that the forward fracture face of the undamaged areas had characteristics indicative of high cycle, low stress fatigue crack propagation.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7266B
- Reported as
- Beech J-35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-5614
- Airframe hours
- 3,619
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-C, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leo M. Rishty
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1985 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- GAI · Gaithersburg, MD
- Destination
- HGR · Hagerstown, MD
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,655 total · 4,130 in this make and model · 4,555 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HGR, 11 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.
Other investigations on N7266B · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.