- Date
- July 29, 1994, 12:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Goshen, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4029Lattimore-Dwyer Breezy
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 19, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940729019699A
- Case key
- 9619
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Probable cause
fuel exhaustion which resulted from the pilot's failure to assure an adequate fuel supply for the flight.
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 and passenger were on a local personal flight when the engine lost power. A forced landing was made in a soybean field, and the airplane nosed over during the landing roll. FAA inspector found no evidence of fuel in either tank. Pilot/owner remarked in his statement that the engine started and ran well when fuel was added to the tanks.
Factual narrative
On July 29, 1994, about 1250 eastern standard time, a Lattimore- Dwyer Breezy, N4029, sustained substantial damage when it nosed- over during a forced landing near Goshen, Indiana. The private pilot was not injured, the single passenger aboard the airplane received minor injuries. The pilot reported a complete loss of engine power while in cruise flight. The personal local flight originated at the Zollinger Airstrip, Ligonier, Indiana, about 1100. No flight plan was filed, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time.
The Federal Aviation Administration Inspector who examined the airplane at the accident site reported there was no significant leakage from the fuel tanks and no fuel odor around the airplane. The pilot stated the engine started and ran well after putting fuel in the tank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4029
- Reported as
- Lattimore-Dwyer Breezy
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- W1000
- Airframe hours
- 437
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Adrian G. Zollinger
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 30, 1994 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- II21 · Ligonier, IN
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,950 total · 820 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBN, 32 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 N4029 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.