- Date
- June 6, 2011, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Canon City, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N238WTaft, Malcolm J SR Glastar
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern base: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20110606011449A
- Case key
- 80843
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
A loss of engine power due to an overheated engine as a result of a malfunction of the modified engine cooling system, necessitating a forced landing on unsuitable terrain.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot said the flight was made to test a new cooling modification on the engine. The engine soon began overheating and seized when the airplane was on the base leg of the traffic pattern, forcing the pilot to land short of the runway in loose dirt. The impact crushed the outboard portion of the left wing and buckled the upper skin of the right wing.
Factual narrative
The pilot said the flight was made to test a new cooling modification on the engine. The engine soon began overheating and seized when the airplane was on base leg. The pilot forced to land short of runway 29 in loose dirt. The impact crushed the outboard portion of the left wing and buckled the upper skin of the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N238W
- Reported as
- Taft, Malcolm J SR Glastar
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 05110
- Airframe hours
- 2
- Engine
- Subaru ALL MDLS A/B, 175 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 1, 2011
- Departed
- 1V6 · Canon City, CO
- Destination
- 1V6 · Canon City, CO
- Airport
- 1V6 · Fremont County Airport, runway 29, 5,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 75
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 15, 2008
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 521 total · 2 in this make and model · 427 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 29 knots, gusting 35
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 15, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 576 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.