- Date
- May 20, 1991, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Clinton, MI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N333LRLuscombe 8E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910520016539A
- Case key
- 14902
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Probable cause
Physical impairment of the pilot due to heart attack.
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
Pilot was attempting to land at a private airstrip he was unfamiliar with and struck a set of power lines running across the runway 347 feet from the approach end of the runway he was attempting to land on. The autopsy revealed that the pilot had experienced a cardiac event and subsequently expired.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N333LR
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5366
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Louise M. Feichtinger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 43G · Belleville, MI
- Airport
- MI52 · Markham, runway 1, 2,300 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 67
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 5,600 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARB, 13 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.