- Date
- April 10, 1988, 11:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Pleasant, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N528MSAnderson Pitts S-1S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880410009569A
- Case key
- 13866
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot was performing some inverted maneuvers when the engine quit. The pilot stated he attempted to restart the engine but was unable to. He then executed an emergency landing in a farm field. During the landing roll the pilot was unable to maintain directional control and struck a furrow in the cultivated soil causing it to flip over onto its back, substantially damaging the aircraft. According to a mechanic, the engine quit as a result of an incorrect flop tube installed in the inverted fuel system when the homebuilt aircraft was constructed. The incorrect part was constructed of garden hose material and was incapable of supplying fuel to the aircraft inverted and when the fuel quantity was low.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N528MS
- Reported as
- Anderson Pitts S-1S
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- EGA-1
- Airframe hours
- 295
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Murray C. Shaver
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 11, 1987 · 19 hours before
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 11,591 total · 75 in this make and model · 9,600 as pilot in command · 71 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.