- Date
- June 19, 1987, 18:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Mccordsville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N550LRBoeing E75
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870619020959A
- Case key
- 13611
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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
During initial climb the engine sustained a total power failure and the pilot attempted to return to the airport. The aircraft impacted in a soybean field approximately 200 feet short of the runway in a 20 degree nose down attitude. Investigation revealed the flex duct between the lower cowling air intake and the bendix fuel injector was sucked into the throttle body. No support wire was found inside the duct. Maintenance was accomplished on this duct just prior to the accident flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N550LR
- Reported as
- Boeing E75 (E-75)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 42-17594
- Airframe hours
- 45
- Engine
- P&W R985-AN3, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sky Ads Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 20, 1987 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- I21 · Brookside, IN
- Destination
- I21
- Airport
- I21 · Brookside
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 4,251 total · 50 in this make and model · 4,087 as pilot in command · 222 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 13,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 19 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.