- Date
- May 19, 1986, 18:36 local (May 20, 1986, 00:36 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N85LADenney Aerocraft Kitfox
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860519018609A
- Case key
- 16862
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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
Shortly after takeoff, the acft had a partial power loss. The left wing then dipped sharply & the acft entered a steep nose low descent & crashed on the nw corner of the arpt. An investigation revealed a noise suppressor was installed on one of 2 spark plug wires of the 2 cylinder engine to improve the performance of the hand held, 2-WAY radio. Due to a deficiency in the noise suppressor, there was no continuity in that respective wire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85LA
- Reported as
- Denney Aerocraft Kitfox
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 14
- Airframe hours
- 60
- Engine
- Rotax 503, 52 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Louis W. Anderson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 2, 1986 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- OGD · Ogden Muni, runway 34, 5,352 × 200 ft, asphalt
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 161 total · 60 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 53 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGD, 1 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.