- Date
- June 30, 1966
- Place
- St Charles, MO · ST CHARLES, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4776TCougar O-P
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171575
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0492 66/6/30 ST CHARLES MO COUGAR O-P CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 50, 1200 TIME - 0950 N4776T PX- 0 0 0 TEST TOTAL HOURS, 1 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - ST.CHARLES TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH UNDERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- PILOT WAS RETURNING TO ARPT.DUE OVERHEATED ENG.LATER DETERMINED NO3 CYL.WALL AND TOP RING BROKEN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4776T
- Reported as
- Cougar O-P
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- St.Charles
N4776TRegistration cancelled Jun 8, 1971 · Osborne-Posey O-P COUGARAirframe modelOsborne-Posey O-P COUGAR
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.