- Date
- April 20, 1986, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gerogetown, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N39943Baby Bird Q2-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860420012979A
- Case key
- 21967
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft landed short of the rwy after losing partial pwr while maneuvering around the arpt. The plt had radioed that the eng was developing about 2000 RPM. The plt had reported throttle problems on previous flt. Due to impact damage it was not possible to inspect the engine properly. The acft had clipped the tops of trees south of the rwy and then descended very steeply to a nose first crash landing. The acft made ground contact 90 ft from the tree contact point and stopped 47 ft after ground contact. The plt thought that the mixture controls came partially loose allowing the mixture to partially close reducing the RPM of the eng.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39943
- Reported as
- Baby Bird Q2-200
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2655
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100 DL7, 75 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Briggs, Richard A.
- Registered owner
- Baby Bird Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- GUO · Georgetown, TX
- Airport
- GUO · Georgetown, runway 29, 4,100 × 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 15 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.