- Date
- November 5, 1989, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Windmill Point, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4519LGulfstream American AA-5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891105065529A
- Case key
- 11566
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Probable cause
Loss of engine power due to oil starvation.
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.
Loss of engine power
Fluid,oil - starvationCause
Forced landing
Ditching
Terrain condition - water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4519L
- Reported as
- Gulfstream American AA-5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B-1054
- Airframe hours
- 2,211
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flying Tigers, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Burkholder-Bollinger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 12, 1989 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- SBY · Salisbury, MD
- Destination
- ACY · Atlantic City, NJ
N4519LRegistration cancelled Mar 24, 1999 · Gulfstream American AA-5BAirframe modelGulfstream American AA-5B
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORF, 45 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.