- Date
- June 23, 1981
- Place
- Endicott, NY · ENDICOTT, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N393WSCurtiss Pusher
- Status
- Completed · report August 21, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810623037819A
- Case key
- 125175
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1604 81/6/23 ENDICOTT,NY CURTISS PUSHER CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 55, 110 TIME - 1825 N393WS PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 2 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ENDICOTT,NY LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - IGNITION SYSTEM: LOW TENSION WIRING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DISCONNECTED FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- IGNITION WIRE BCM DISCONNECTED.IMPACTED ON RVR BANK AT EDGE OF ARPT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N393WS
- Reported as
- Curtiss Pusher
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Tri-City
N393WSRegistration cancelled Nov 14, 2012 · Spry-Wallace CURTISS PUSHERAirframe modelSpry-Wallace CURTISS PUSHER
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.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.