- Date
- September 9, 1990, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Edna, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2MNBlaine Laux Pitts S-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900909038529A
- Case key
- 22975
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Probable cause
A power loss due to failure of a connecting rod bolt. A factor was the soft terrain in which the forced landing was performed.
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
Ten minutes after takeoff the pilot radioed that the engine had lost oil pressure and he attempted to return to the airport. About three miles north of the airport the pilot performed a forced landing into a field. Upon landing, the airplane nosed over making one complete revolution, and came to rest on the main gear and nose. A connecting rod bolt on the number four cylinder failed. The left side of the engine case was violated and the oil sump contained metal shavings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2MN
- Reported as
- Blaine Laux Pitts S-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- L-1
- Airframe hours
- 892
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Edgerton, Jeffery S.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination
- FWS · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- 26R · Jackson Co.
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,011 total · 242 in this make and model · 844 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VCT, 19 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.