- Date
- October 27, 1987, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Buena, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5082TBeech 19A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 9, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871027060859A
- Case key
- 36044
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Probable cause
a loss of electrical power for undetermined reasons, which necessitated a precautionary landing. Factors were rain, clouds, dark night, and the pole.
This report was modified on February 9, 2005.
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 Beech model 19 took off in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) with the owner/operator and a flight instructor onboard. A few minutes after takeoff the aircraft experienced a loss of electrical power. The alternator circuit breaker popped, the flight instructor reset it and it popped again. It was not reset. Because of the IMC and the rapid loss of electrical power, a precautionary off airport landing on a road was made. The aircraft received substantial damage upon striking a pole. The battery was found with a specific gravity of zero; the alternator worked when ground checked; and the alternator circuit breaker was found in the open position. The reason that the alternator circuit breaker tripped was not determined.
This report was modified on February 9, 2005.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5082T
- Reported as
- Beech 19A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-435
- Airframe hours
- 3,060
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald Duffield
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1987 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- MIV · Millville, NJ
- Destination
- N14 · Lumberton, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,736 total · 15 in this make and model · 1,736 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 100° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ACY, 9 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.