- Date
- April 15, 1994, 13:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Enterprise, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7057GAsher RV-6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 2, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940415007999A
- Case key
- 41910
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Probable cause
A loss of power due to a partially blocked induction air filter. Factors include no suitable terrain on which to execute a 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
Just after takeoff, the aircraft experienced a partial loss of power, and the pilot elected to attempt a forced landing on the nearby unsuitable terrain. Inspection of the aircraft revealed that the induction air filter was partially blocked by fragments of an insulating material that the builder had wrapped around the exhaust system.
Factual narrative
On April 15, 1994, approximately 1350 Pacific daylight time (PDT), the pilot of an Asher RV-6 experimental aircraft, N7057G, impacted the terrain during an attempted forced landing. The forced landing was initiated by the pilot after he experienced a loss of engine power during the initial takeoff climb from Enterprise Municipal Airport, Enterprise, Oregon. The certified flight instructor was not injured, his passenger received minor injuries, and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The personal pleasure flight, which was departing for Afton, Wyoming, was operating in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. The pilot had filed a VFR flight plan, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the pilot, the engine experienced a rapid power loss just after takeoff, and he elected to attempt a forced landing on the unsuitable terrain off the end of the runway.
Inspection of the aircraft by an NTSB investigator and an FAA inspector revealed that the induction air filter had been partially blocked by fragments of an insulating material that the builder had wrapped around portions of the exhaust system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7057G
- Reported as
- Asher RV-6
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 200066
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Asher, Mervyn E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination
- AFO · Afton, WY
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 8S4 · Interprise Municipal
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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,500 total · 104 in this make and model · 4,450 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 30 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.