- Date
- October 13, 1987, 17:50 local (22:50 UTC)
- Place
- Silsbee, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N19MWWatkins/Monnett Moni
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871013059559A
- Case key
- 22470
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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
Shortly after takeoff, the eng lost power & the plt tried to return to the arpt. However, as he was shutting off the fuel, the acft stalled & began to spin. He initiated corrective action, but the acft collided with trees before he could recover. An investigation revealed the fuel shut-off valve filter screen was about 75% clogged with a carbon like material which restricted the fuel flow to the eng. The plt/owner/builder was not aware of this fuel screen, which was installed behind the fuel shut-off valve, inside the fuel tank. He had installed another in-line fuel filter which was clean. The home built acft had 50 hrs total flt time & had flown only 9 hrs since the annual inspn.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19MW
- Reported as
- Watkins/Monnett Moni
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 00195
- Airframe hours
- 50
- Engine
- KFM 107E, 25 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mark D. Watkins
- Registered owner
- Watkins, Mark D
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 3, 1987 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- 45R
- Destination
- BPT · Beaumont, TX
- Airport
- 45R · Hawthorne Field, runway 13, 3,800 × 75 ft, macadam
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 139 total · 55 in this make and model · 139 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BPT, 25 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.