- Date
- March 15, 1984, 13:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Winter Garden, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67SCShark BI-PLANE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840315007389A
- Case key
- 31098
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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 crashed during a forced landing after the engine quit. The plt said the power loss was due to fuel exaustion. He stated that when the tanks were full when he departed savannah and a siphon effect might have been created accountingfor the loss of reserve.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67SC
- Reported as
- Shark BI-PLANE
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- NSBP-1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Starvos A. Chrysostomides
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 4, 1984 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Destination
- LAL · Lakeland, FL
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 560 total · 270 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAL, 40 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.