- Date
- March 11, 1983, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ultsses, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N110RERotec Rally 3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 33390
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
This amateur-built aircraft was being flown at 200 feet AGL on a pleasure flight when the engine quit. The pilot made a forced landing in a soft field and the aircraft nosed over. The engine quit because the fuel cap was not vented. The capwas supplied with the kit by rotex engineering,inc. and produced by kelch corp of meguon,WI, the cap was listed as vented. On this flight the plastic fuel tank partially collapsed during the 20 minute flight. All previous flights in this aircraft had been of 15 or less minutes with no problems in the fuel system. The 4 owners of the aircraft had neverchekced to ser if the cap was venting properly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N110RE
- Reported as
- Rotec Rally 3
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 25080
- Airframe hours
- 6
- Engine
- Cuyuna 430 R, 42 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Boyd
- Registered owner
- Boyd/Long/Jon & Greg Fort
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 94 total · 1 in this make and model · 41 as pilot in command · 81 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F