- Date
- June 17, 1992, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N300XLExtra Flugzeugbau 300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920617020749A
- Case key
- 33103
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Probable cause
Separation of the propeller governor cover from the body for undetermined reasons and visual restriction of the pilot due to leaking oil which covered the windscreen.
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
During cruise flt the plt reported that the eng RPM increased without movement of any cockpit control. He retarded then advanced the throttle but the eng RPM did not go higher than 1,700. During the emergency descent, oil began covering the windscreen. He turned to land at a nearby airport but diverted to a closer arpt. While on final apch to a rwy, he realized that the flt was high & fast & added power to go around, but the eng RPM did not increase. He performed a 290-degree turn & landed long on an adjacent grass rwy. The airplane travelled off the end, through a fence, then came to rest in a ditch. Exam of the eng compartment revealed that the cover assy of the propeller governor separated from the body. The cover is secured to the body by a clamp. The clamp was tightly secured to the body. The governor had been modified in 1988 after manufacture & had accumulated 430 hrs. The acft had accumulated 530 hrs since manufacture. The governor had been removed & reinstalled several times. The flyweights were not located. No determination could be made as to the reason for the cap to separate from the body.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300XL
- Reported as
- Extra Flugzeugbau 300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 001
- Airframe hours
- 530
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIA540L1B5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lillberg, John W. & Leslie J.
- Registered owner
- Lillberg, John W. & Leslie J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 3, 1992 · 83 hours before
- Departed
- 1X4 · Boynton Beach, FL
- Destination
- DOV · Dover, DE
- Airport
- X21 · Arthur Dunn Air Park, runway 4, 1,290 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 3,450 total · 530 in this make and model · 80 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIX, 7 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.