- Date
- September 6, 1983, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2305ZBucker Flugzeugbau Casa 1-131E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830906048959A
- Case key
- 30936
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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 tkof the eng lost pwr and the pilot was forced to execute an emerg lndg. The main landing gear collapsed during touchdown on a highway. During the subsequent engine teardown the magneto timing was found to be retarded 24 degrees on the left magneto for all cylinders. Magneto timing was found to be retarded 66 degrees for the impulse cylinders and 47 degrees for the other two cylinders on the right magneto. The fuel inlet screen was found to be partially obstructed with lint and metal flakes. A paint flake was found to be partially blocking the air passageway to the emulsion tube in the carburetor. A cylindrical piece of metal was found in the drive section of the fuel pump.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2305Z
- Reported as
- Bucker Flugzeugbau Casa 1-131E (CASA 1-131)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36L
- Airframe hours
- 1,310
- Engine
- Enma G-IV-A2, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rene L. Minjares
- Registered owner
- Barnstormer Aero Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 2, 1982 · 120 hours before
- Departed
- 82J · Pensacola, FL
- Airport
- 82J · Ferguson, runway 36, 2,600 × 200 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,872 total · 123 in this make and model · 3,771 as pilot in command · 101 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 3 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.