- Date
- September 18, 1983, 15:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Lynnwood, WA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N44HAAnderson Starduster TOO SA300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830918050319A
- Case key
- 39765
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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 plt reported that during flt, there was a change in the engine sound which was followed by a drop in fuel pressure. The plt started to look for a place to land when a total loss of power occurred. He elected to land on a football field. However, after touchdown, he was unable to stop on the field. The acft continued off the end, went between two houses & damaged a fence & a vehicle before coming to rest at the side of a road. After the accident, the plt found that the left muffler & a portion of the exhaust pipe were missing. He reported that hot exhaust gases had blown onto a fuel line, between the fuel pump & the carburetor, thus vaporizing the fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44HA
- Reported as
- Anderson Starduster TOO SA300 (STARDUSTER)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- HA1490
- Airframe hours
- 122
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hubert A. Anderson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- S42 · Silverdale, WA
- Destination
- S43 · Snohomish, WA
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 505 total · 122 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFI, 24 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.