- Date
- April 19, 1987, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tupelo, MS
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N70PJCremer VP-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870419010319A
- Case key
- 31896
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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
Acft lost engine power on short final approach. Acft stalled and touched down hard short of the runway. The acft then collided with the raised edge of the runway collapsing the main gear and then nosing over. The pilot attributed the loss of engine power to a weak magneto coil which he had been attempting to repair. The weak coil allowed for a weak spark at the spark plugs which allowed the plugs to foul and the engine not to respond quickly to power increases.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70PJ
- Reported as
- Cremer VP-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- ES-70
- Airframe hours
- 275
- Engine
- Volkswagen 1600, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Zeke L.E. Lamb
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 4, 1986
- Airport
- Lamb, runway 36, 1,650 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 448 total · 1 in this make and model · 386 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUP, 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.