- Date
- August 13, 1985, 08:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Haugan, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6305KDowner Aircraft Industries REP. Seabee RC-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850813038899A
- Case key
- 16747
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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
The plt had reconditioned N6305K and was flying the acft to his home in Texas. He continued to state that while climbing through 6500 ft, he heard an unusual noise followed by a substantial loss in pwr. The plt executed an emergency landing on a forest service road. Exam of the eng after the accident revealed that the no. 3 piston had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6305K
- Reported as
- Downer Aircraft Industries REP. Seabee RC-3 (REP. SEABE)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 524
- Airframe hours
- 350
- Engine
- Franklin 6A8-215-B8F, 215 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Dale A. Mccombs
- Registered owner
- Dallas Piper
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- COE · Coeur D'Alene, ID
- Destination
- MSO · Missoula, MT
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
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 10 in this make and model · 5,800 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.