- Date
- May 17, 1984, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Plainview, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7393VBellanca 17-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840517017289A
- Case key
- 21337
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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
A tlt loss of power occurred during the initial takeoff climb. The landing gear collapsed when a forced landing was made in an open field. The acft just came out of an annual inspection. After the accident a fuel leak was found where the main inlet fuel line connects to the fuel injector distributor block. It is not known how much fuel was lost from the leak. It was also discovered that the fuel selector was on the right tank which was found empty.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7393V
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30242
- Airframe hours
- 1,890
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Terry Mcfadden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1984 · 0 hours before
- Airport
- PVW · Hale County, runway 13, 4,000 × 100 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,192 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 5,070 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.