- Date
- June 12, 1993, 19:15 local (Jun 13, 1993, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- White Pigeon, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N138RKRobert L. Kennedy Avid Flyer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930612022879A
- Case key
- 15735
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's inability to attain proper touch down point. The improperly adjusted idle setting which resulted in the loss of engine power was also a cause.
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
Following an engine failure on approach to his private grass airstrip, the pilot touched down 3/4 of the way down the runway, and was unable to stop the airplane before overrunning the airstrip, crossing a dirt road and finally coming to rest in a soybean field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N138RK
- Reported as
- Robert L. Kennedy Avid Flyer
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 138
- Engine
- Volkswagen, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Edie, Louis N.
- Registered owner
- Edie, Louis N.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 18, 1992
- Departed
- Unknown
- Destination
- Unknown
- Airport
- NONE · Unknown
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 167 total · 11 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EKM, 18 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.
Other investigations on N138RK · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.