- Date
- May 16, 1992, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Billings, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N21QQE.E. Shilling Q-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920516015099A
- Case key
- 41679
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Probable cause
An undetermined loss of engine power.
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 a test flight following an engine overhaul, the pilot reported that everything was normal for the start, taxi, takeoff and climb to 2,000 feet AGL. A slight roughness was noted and corrected with a richer mixture. A short time later, the engine began to run rough again and a full rich mixture was required for normal operation. The flight was returning to the airport when the engine roughness increased until there was a total power loss. Unable to reach the runway, the pilot initiated a forced landing to a wheat field. During the landing roll, the airplane collided with the terrain. During the post-crash investigation, the pilot reported that this engine had experienced several power losses over the past 28 hours flight time since the airplane was built, with no definite reason found as to the cause of the problems. The pilot stated that he was going to replace the engine with another and was not going to have the accident engine inspected.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21QQ
- Reported as
- E.E. Shilling Q-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 275
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100 DQ, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael R. Moore
- Registered owner
- Michael R. Moore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 4, 1991 · 10 hours before
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 179 total · 21 in this make and model · 132 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots, gusting 6
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 39 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N21QQ · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.