- Date
- March 5, 1988, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lowell, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3969CGalloway XTC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13864
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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 of the homebuilt aircraft was attempting to perform some 'pattern flights' when, after turning on to the base leg of the traffic pattern, the engine seized. The pilot attempted to 'dead stick' the aircraft to the runway, but altitude and airspeed were not sufficient enough for the aircraft to reach the runway. Subsequently the aircraft collided with some trees approximately 100 feet short of the runway. Investigation revealed a burned bearing which had rotated in the crankcase.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3969C
- Reported as
- Galloway XTC
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 04
- Airframe hours
- 49
- Engine
- Rotax 447, 43 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Earnest L. Galloway
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 15, 1987 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- 24C · Lowell, runway 24, 1,850 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 609 total · 55 in this make and model · 20 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRR, 10 nm away