- Date
- August 20, 1991, 06:40 local (10:40 UTC)
- Place
- Martinsville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N63BBeech E18S
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910820035159A
- Case key
- 36993
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Probable cause
A failure of one engine for undetermined reasons. Additionally, the heavy gross weight resulted in inadequate single engine performance, which lead to a forced landing.
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
After takeoff at 600 feet, the right engine quit. The pilot said, '[the] altitude dropped about 100' and airspeed at 120 knots. The right engine came back again . . . It ran for about 10 seconds. [I] adjusted power on left engine . . . Feathered right prop and tried to maintain altitude, but airspeed kept diminishing, so I had to descend to maintain airspeed.' The pilot put the landing gear down to absorb the shock of landing in a field. An examination revealed no malfunctions in the engine or carburetor. The airplane was within allowable gross weight and center of gravity limits. The weather was: ceiling 600 feet broken, 1500 feet overcast, visibility 3 miles, light rain and fog.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63B
- Reported as
- Beech E18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA-119
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Gary Jelinek
- Registered owner
- Northern Airmotive Inc.
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- ILN · Wilmington, OH
- Destination
- RIC · Richmond, VA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ILN · Wilmington
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
- 39
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 1,320 in this make and model · 2,635 as pilot in command · 132 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.