- Date
- February 15, 1984, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Placid, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N44816Harvey Condor 3+2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840215003779A
- Case key
- 31079
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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
The acft was damaged in a forced landing after the engine lost power. The plt reported that a parachute line contacted the engine on/off switch and shut off the engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44816
- Reported as
- Harvey Condor 3+2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 83-1403+2
- Airframe hours
- 5
- Engine
- Kawasaki TC-440A, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mitchell Harvey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- None
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 85 total · 10 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DBL, 47 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.
Other investigations on N44816 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.