- Date
- July 16, 1988, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Battlecreek, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N24DSSilliman Hatz CB-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880716026749A
- Case key
- 13869
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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
While attempting to execute a forced landing due to an engine failure, the pilot misjudged his emergency procedure and collided with trees then the gnd during the descent to the fairway he had selected for landing. The engine failure was due to fuel starvation caused by a fuel vent line which was crimped closed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24DS
- Reported as
- Silliman Hatz CB-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 126
- Airframe hours
- 68
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Amundson, John D.
- Registered owner
- Amundson John D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 13, 1988 · 1 hours before
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
- 53
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 40 in this make and model · 6,300 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 22° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BTL, 3 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.