- Date
- October 7, 1991, 16:18 local (23:18 UTC)
- Place
- Buckeye, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N187JHHill RL Breezy
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911007045169A
- Case key
- 27473
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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Probable cause
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
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
On the day of the accident, the pilot stated he was in cruise flight at 4000 feet MSL when he started losing power. The pilot attempted to land on a dirt road, the aircraft collided with a dirt windrow/berm. The pilot has failed to respond to requests by FAA and NTSB investigators for information. The wreckage was not made available for examination.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N187JH
- Reported as
- Hill RL Breezy
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 187
- Engine
- Lycoming, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert W. Tuck
- Registered owner
- Robert W. Tuck
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- LHU · Lake Havasu, AZ
- Destination
- RYN · Tucson, AZ
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- PHX, 1 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.