- Date
- September 24, 1985, 16:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Burlington, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6627VBellanca 17-30A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40251
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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
During initial climb, the plt smelled smoke & heard a backfire, then the eng lost power. A forced landing was made in a field on rough/uneven terrain. During the landing roll, the acft struck a ditch & was damaged. A visual inspection revealed that the left exhaust muffler had failed at its outlet. This allowed hot exhaust gases to enter the eng compartment & damage the voltage regulator, alternator & magneto wiring (p-leads). With p-lead failure, the magnetos would have been inoperative. An airworthiness directive, AD 76-23-03, which required an inspection of the exhaust sys each 100 hrs, had last been complied with on 8/18/82. However the acft had been operated for only 50 flt hrs since that date.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6627V
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-290
- Airframe hours
- 1,223
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-K, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Byron D. Otten
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 29, 1984 · 1,208 hours before
- Destination
- S17 · East Sound, WA
- Airport
- 758 · Skagit Regional/Bay View, runway 28, 5,364 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,325 total · 110 in this make and model · 223 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F