- Date
- August 27, 1971
- Place
- Lincoln, NE · LINCOLN, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6138Wrong Bros. Z
- Status
- Completed · report January 3, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162078
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1365 71/8/27 NR.LINCOLN,NEBR WRONG BROS. Z CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 47, 82 TOTAL TIME - 0805 N6138 PX- 0 0 0 TEST HOURS, 19 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LINCOLN,NEBR LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - ENGINE STRUCTURE: CRANKSHAFT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- CRANKSHAFT IN VW ENG FAILED. LND ON HILLSIDE. NOSE GR FAILED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6138
- Reported as
- Wrong Bros. Z
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N6138Registration cancelled Oct 7, 1971 · Newhouse-Peters WRONG BROTHERSAirframe modelNewhouse-Peters WRONG BROTHERS
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.