- Date
- August 19, 1992, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paducah, KY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N852DCBenson-Callaway B-80
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920819036669A
- Case key
- 37221
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons resulting in a forced landing on unsuitable terrain.
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 pilot made a forced landing in a corn field. The pilot said, 'fuel starvation due to contamination in fuel lines-power loss-landed in 12' tall corn field.' The FAA did not receive notification of the accident until seven days after the occurrance. When the FAA inspectors arrived at the airport where the wreckage was located, the gyroplane was being rebuilt and no determination of the engine failure was possible.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N852DC
- Reported as
- Benson-Callaway B-80
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- DC8522762
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ira D.Farrington
- Registered owner
- Ira D.Farrington
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 1900 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- KY29 · Paducah, KY
- Destination
- KY29
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 40 in this make and model · 70 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.