- Date
- January 5, 1989, 02:40 local (07:40 UTC)
- Place
- Margate, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N736BXCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890105000189A
- Case key
- 32379
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Probable cause
Failure of the engine driven oil pump due to foreign object(s), which resulted in oil starvation and subsequent engine failure. Factors related to the accident were: dark night and trees in the emergency landing area.
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
While being vectored to intercept the localizer course at an altitude of aprx 2200 ft, aprx 5 miles from the arpt, the RPM gauge fluctuated. The plt applied full throttle, mixture & propeller controls, but the eng then lost power. During a subsequent off-airport forced landing at night, the acft collided with trees. An exam of the eng revealed evidence of oil starvation. The eng driven oil pump drive shaft had failed from overload after foreign object(s) became lodged between the housing & the gears. Also, there was evidence of eng seizure after the #6 connecting rod had failed & that the #5 connecting rod had failed from overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736BX
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722407
- Airframe hours
- 1,087
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harris, Stephen P.
- Registered owner
- Harris, Paul S
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 2, 1988 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Destination
- FXE · Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- FXE · Ft Lauderdale Executive
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 336 total · 104 in this make and model · 159 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 330° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 11 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.