- Date
- July 24, 1988, 14:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N28140Bellanca 17-30A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 21, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880724027569A
- Case key
- 32032
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft departed spruce creek arpt and aprx 2 minutes later lost power and crashed into trees just west of the volusia county landfill aprx 4 miles northeast of the Daytona Beach regional arpt. Postcrash examination of the engine revealed the drain line on an oil separator kit recently installed was adapted inadvertantly to a pressure port on the engine case instead of a suction port. This diverted the engine oil overboard through the oil separator vent tube, starving the engine of oil. The engine sustained major damage with evidence of seizure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28140
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 80-30980
- Airframe hours
- 1,020
- Engine
- Continental IO-520K, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Marion Paul, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1987 · 142 hours before
- Departed
- 44J · Daytona Beach, FL
- Destination
- 3A9 · Gatlinburg, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,907 total · 1,462 in this make and model · 59 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 4 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.