- Date
- March 25, 1989, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Purvis, MS
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N70396Dyar KIT FOX
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890325004749A
- Case key
- 32413
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Probable cause
Failure of the engine's rear piston. Factors related to the accident were: the pilot's lack of altitude for a forced landing 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
The plt had flown the homebuilt acft about 6 hrs since construction was completed. He stated he was flying near a friend's house at about 100 ft & pulled up into a climb to return home. While passing thru about 200 ft, the eng 'choked' & he made a 180 deg turn to land in a field. Just before landing, the rgt wing struck a tree & the acft crashed. An exam of the eng revealed the rear piston had failed for an undetermined reason.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70396
- Reported as
- Dyar KIT FOX
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 266
- Airframe hours
- 6
- Engine
- Rotax 532, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Barnard Dyar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1988 · 6 hours before
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
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 6 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCB, 56 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.