- Date
- July 13, 1986, 19:00 local (Jul 14, 1986, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Salina, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N146AFStainbrook Avid Flyer
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860713050919A
- Case key
- 34214
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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
The PIC had been practicing touch and go landings at a private air strip. At 50 feet AGL the PIC stated the engine quit and he descended into the ground off the rwy. Post accident inspection of the eng revealed that the propeller reduction gearing had broken and no thrust was available to continue the takeoff. The PIC stated he had trouble with this type of propeller gear reduction system before.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N146AF
- Reported as
- Stainbrook Avid Flyer
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 146
- Airframe hours
- 65
- Engine
- Cuyuna UL 430 RR, 43 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bruce Stainbrook
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1985 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- Salina, KS
- Airport
- runway 36, 2,500 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 700 total · 65 in this make and model · 667 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLN, 3 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.