- Date
- September 13, 1992, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Foristell, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N42JTTinsman RV6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 15203
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Probable cause
The partial failure of the fuel injection system. Factors related to the accident are the pilot's insufficient altitude to reach the runway from the downwind leg, and the presence of transmission wires in the off airport landing site.
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 airplane lost engine power on the downwind leg of the landing pattern. The airplane was at altitude that the pilot judged to be insufficient to reach the airstrip, and an off airport landing was attempted. The airplane struck transmission lines during the approach and crashed in a field. An examination of the fuel injection system discovered a faulty seal which allowed the engine to run too rich to sustain operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42JT
- Reported as
- Tinsman RV6
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 20612
- Airframe hours
- 400
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-EIA, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tinsman, James Wesley
- Registered owner
- Tinsman, James Wesley
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · October 9, 1991 · 110 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Airport
- PUT · Woodliff Air Park
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 110 in this make and model · 15,000 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 16.2 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 18 nm away