- Date
- August 2, 1991, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chiloquin, OR
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5222VChance Vought F4U-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910802031489A
- Case key
- 41504
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Probable cause
The loss of power due to engine failure, for undetermined reasons.
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 WW2 vintage fighter acft was in a flt of 4 acft when the engine began running rough, lost oil pressure and failed. The pilot parachuted from the acft, which caught fire before he could reach the nearest arpt for an emergency ldg. The acft impacted trees and started a forest fire. The engine was destroyed by fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5222V
- Reported as
- Chance Vought F4U-4
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9484
- Engine
- P&W R2800 CB16/17, 2,450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Erickson Air-Crane Co.
- Registered owner
- Erickson Air-Crane Co.
- Departed
- MFR · Medford, OR
- Destination
- U35 · Caldwell, ID
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
- 50
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 8,200 total · 1 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LMT, 31 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.