- Date
- August 28, 1986, 17:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Plainfield, IL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N45FCFriling/Cothern Longeze
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860828044389A
- Case key
- 13290
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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 made a steep right bank while entering the downwind leg on approach to land when the engine quit and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a field short of the runway. Upon examination of the fuel system there was a lack of fuel in the lines between the in-line fuel filter, electric fuel pump, engine driven fuel pump and carburetor. The fuel system was purged of air by loosening the fuel line at the carburetor and hand cranking the engine. The engine was then started and ran satisfactorily. The builder of the experimental aircraft stated that it had been his experience that during a steep banked right or left turn the fuel will pull away from the fuel sump outlet of the engine, allowing air to enter the fuel lines.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45FC
- Reported as
- Friling/Cothern Longeze
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- CF-1
- Airframe hours
- 110
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Friling/Ronald Cothern
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 8, 1986 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- A1Z · Kaiser Lake, MO
- Destination
- 1C5 · Plainfield, IL
- Airport
- 1C5 · Clow Intl., runway 36, 3,370 × 50 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 700 total · 83 in this make and model · 640 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DPA, 14 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.