- Date
- May 1, 1978
- Place
- Baytown, TX · BAYTOWN, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N636UGrumman G-164A
- Status
- Completed · report May 25, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780501008129A
- Case key
- 142168
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0667 78/5/1 BAYTOWN,TX GRUMMAN G-164A CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1400 N636U PX- 0 0 0 FERRY AGE 35, 3300 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 80 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION BAYTOWN,TX LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLIDED WITH: AUTOMOBILE LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- WHEN TCHDWN POINT APPEARED TOO SHORT,PLT ADDED POWER,ENG MISFIRED.WING STRUCK AUTO PARKED ON STRIP
Aircraft
- Registration
- N636U
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N636URegistration cancelled Mar 24, 2017 · Grumman G-164Airframe modelGrumman G-164Engine modelPratt & Whitney R-985 series
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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 N636U · 2
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