- Date
- May 23, 1990, 06:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place
- Little Rock, AR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N301KKPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900523017109A
- Case key
- 34984
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Probable cause
The failure of the powerplant due to a sheared timing gear. Contributing factors were unsuitable terrain and restricted vision due to fog.
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 atr rated plt said that he was on an ILS instrument approach, in IFR conditions, and had just intercepted the glide slope, when the engine failed. An emergency, off airport, landing was attempted on a landfill with rough unsuitable terrain. Post accident investigation revealed that the timing gear had sheared.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N301KK
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-7940092
- Airframe hours
- 3,500
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sst Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 20, 1990 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- FLP · Flippin, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LIT · Little Rock-Adams
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
- 47
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,874 total · 290 in this make and model · 5,400 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 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.