- Date
- March 18, 1990, 17:38 local (22:38 UTC)
- Place
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N83TSTalmadge Scott Longez
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900318004769A
- Case key
- 32638
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Probable cause
The failure of maintenance personnel to properly secure the carburetor throttle cable housing.
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
Pilot/builder installed new carburetor 3 flight hours before accident. The clamp which holds the carburetor throttle cable housing was not fully tightened. The housing slipped in the clamp not allowing full throttle cable movement and thus the inability to command full engine power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83TS
- Reported as
- Talmadge Scott Longez
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1982-L
- Airframe hours
- 633
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D2, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Scott, Talmadge
- Registered owner
- Talmadge Scott
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- SPG · Albert Whitted, runway 36, 2,865 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 624 total · 605 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 315° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SPG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N83TS · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.