- Date
- May 20, 1989, 11:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Farmington, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N71HMMccoy BD-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890520012509A
- Case key
- 17548
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The malfunction of the aircraft electrical system due to a faulty circuit breaker. The subsequent failure of the electrical system resulted in failure of the engine ignition system and loss of engine power.
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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Electrical system,circuit breaker - shortedCause
Electrical system - failure,totalCause
Ignition system - inoperativeCause
Forced landing
Hard landing
Landing gear,main gear - collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - collapsed
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71HM
- Reported as
- Mccoy BD-5
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2061
- Airframe hours
- 60
- Engine
- Honda EB-3, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mc Coy, Hugh M.
- Registered owner
- Hugh M Mccoy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 25, 1989 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- FMN · Farmington, NM
- Destination
- FMN
- Airport
- FMN · Four Corners Regional, runway 5, 6,500 × 150 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,680 total · 50 in this make and model · 2,650 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.