- Date
- January 27, 1988, 15:17 local (23:17 UTC)
- Place
- Half Moon Bay, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N49RCColman BD-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880127009879A
- Case key
- 25728
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Fuel system,line - failure,partialCause
Fuel system,strainer - blocked(partial)Cause
Fluid,fuel - starvationCause
Emergency procedure - attempted
Forced landing
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49RC
- Reported as
- Colman BD-4
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- BD-653
- Airframe hours
- 368
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2E, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Terence J. Mcnamara
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 27, 1987 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- HAF · Half Moon Bay, CA
N49RCRegistration cancelled Mar 18, 2013 · Colman BD-4Airframe modelColman BD-4Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 99 total · 8 in this make and model · 49 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.