# NTSB FTW86FRG18: Baby Bird Q2-200, N39943, Gerogetown, TX, April 20, 1986

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Final report
- Date: April 20, 1986, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place: Gerogetown, TX
- Coordinates: 30.640718, -97.679809 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.6407&lon=-97.6798&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Maneuvering](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/450) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 2 serious
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 21967
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=FTW86FRG18
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/21967/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW86FRG18

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Loss of engine power(partial) - mech failure/malf, maneuvering
  - mixture control,linkage - loose (cause)
- Forced landing, descent - emergency
- In flight collision with object, descent - emergency
  - object - tree(s)
- In flight collision with terrain/water, descent - uncontrolled

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N39943-1988-03-04), registration cancelled 1988-03-04, S/N 2655 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BABY BIRD Q2-200
- Registry model: [Mainliner Morlea QUICKIE Q2](https://openairdocs.org/model/mainliner-morlea-quickie-q2) (registry code 05645QH) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number: 2655
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 47; 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19860420012979A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860420012979A), Apr 20, 1986: Amtrqk QUICKIE2, Georgetown, TX, Destroyed. Overshot final, hit trees, ground on forced landing after power loss. Was having problems with the mixture control.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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