- Date
- September 27, 1984, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Niceville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N44GPThomas Pitts Special S1-SP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840927071669A
- Case key
- 31199
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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(partial) - mech failure/malf
Throttle/power lever,linkage - failure,totalCause
Forced landing
Ditching
Analysis
Due to failure of the engine throttle linkage the engine decelerated to idle power. The plt elected to perform a forced landing in a bayou.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44GP
- Reported as
- Thomas Pitts Special S1-SP (PITTS SPEC)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- PITTS SPEC.
- Airframe hours
- 427
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roscoe D. Morton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 1984 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- Niceville, IL
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 21,250 total · 304 in this make and model · 21,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CEW, 16 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.