- Date
- August 17, 1991, 10:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Stanwood, WA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N35PRWeyerts Rans S-10
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910817034559A
- Case key
- 41514
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Probable cause
An undetermined loss of engine power and the pilot's allowing the airspeed to decelerate below the stall speed during the subsequent 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
The pilot of the single engine homebuilt aircraft was on a recreational flight during which the only eyewitness reported hearing the aircraft's engine 'sputtering' and 'revving'. The witness reported the aircraft in level flight at 300-400 feet altitude. The aircraft crashed in an open grassy field. One blade of the wooden propeller was observed separated with the remaining blade still attached to the engine and relatively undamaged. Upward and downward aft bending deformation was evident on the right and left wingtips respectively at the accident site. The pilot was unable to recall the accident scenario and expired 7 days after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35PR
- Reported as
- Weyerts Rans S-10
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 0288006
- Engine
- Rotax 532, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond H. Weyerts
- Registered owner
- Raymond H. Weyerts
- Departed
- S88 · Arlington, 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 254 total · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- S76, 13 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.