- Date
- March 21, 1987, 14:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Garden City, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2600SCessna T337C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34282
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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
Both of the acft engs had just been overhauled. The plt decided to make a maint test flt & elected to leave the lndg gear in the down & locked psn. Takeoff & initial climb were normal until about 300 to 400 ft AGL. At that time the rear eng lost power. The plt was able to restart it for about 30 sec, then it lost power again. He feathered the rear prop, but was unable to maint alt & speed (with the gear extdd). To avoid a river & rough terrain, he had altered his heading to the left, then saw transmission lines ahead. Realizing the acft would not clear the lines, he turned further left toward the arpt. Subsequently, the acft crashed in an open field on arpt property & was damaged. No preimpact part failure or malfunction was found. The flaps were found in the retracted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2600S
- Reported as
- Cessna T337C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3370900
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-A/B, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Chaparral Aviation, Inc
- Registered owner
- Robinson Aviation, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1986
- Airport
- GCK · Garden City Muni, runway 17, 5,999 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,238 total · 271 in this make and model · 1,747 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GCK
Other investigations on N2600S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.