- Date
- April 29, 1983, 10:41 local (16:41 UTC)
- Place
- Fabens, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N82JWQuickie Q-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830429016909A
- Case key
- 20884
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Analysis
The pilot said that he was flying a low aprch to the airport. When he added power to go around the engine failed. A forced landing was made in a field. The acft is equipped with a header tank which feeds the engine and a main tank which feeds the header tank. The main tank had fuel in it and the header tank was empty when the engine failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82JW
- Reported as
- Quickie Q-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2041
- Airframe hours
- 21
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100 DQ, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph C. Ward
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- ELP · El Paso, TX
- Airport
- E35 · Fabens, runway 26, 4,000 × 60 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,578 total · 20 in this make and model · 2,278 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.