- Date
- August 3, 1985, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Port Isabel, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4434NNorth American AT-6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850803038979A
- Case key
- 21806
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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
The acft was substantially damaged when it undershot the runway and cartwheeled during an emergency landing following an engine failure in the traffic pattern. The plt reported that initial examination of the engine revealed that initial examination of the engine revealed that 4 cylinder heads were cracked and separated from the barrels. No additional information has been received regarding the cause of the engine failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4434N
- Reported as
- North American AT-6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 88-122044
- Airframe hours
- 10,314
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-PC1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robin F. Diver
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 2, 1985 · 18 hours before
- Airport
- T31 · Cameron County, runway 13, 8,000 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,815 total · 120 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 19 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRO, 15 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.