ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 170998
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 November 2014 |
| Time: | 11:45 |
| Type: |  Extra EA-330LC |
| Owner/operator: | Sky Combat Ace |
| Registration: | N369XT |
| MSN: | 1315 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2010 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3016 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming AEIO-580-B1A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Henderson Executive Airport (KHND), Las Vegas, NV -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Las Vegas, NV (KHND) |
| Las Vegas, NV (KHND) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The commercial pilot reported that, while at 3,000 ft above ground level and on a long final to the runway, he advanced the propeller condition lever to full forward and that he then felt a loss of engine power. He checked that the mixture was full rich and that he had the center fuel tank selected. The propeller continued to windmill while he unsuccessfully attempted to restart the engine twice. He decided not to feather the propeller. The pilot realized that the airplane was not going to reach the runway and made a sudden left turn in an attempt to land on a road that paralleled the airport fence line. During the off-field landing, the right wing and landing gear sustained structural damage.
Examination of the airplane revealed that fuel was present in the center and left wing fuel tanks but that the right wing fuel tank was empty. Examination of the propeller governor, engine, and airframe revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. A sound spectrum study of audio recorded by a GoPro camera onboard the airplane verified that, about 1 minute before the accident, the engine rpm began fluctuating and that it then steadily dropped off to about half the normal engine operating rpm by the time of impact.
Probable Cause: A partial loss of engine power during cruise flight for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the engine did not reveal any anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20141105X64342&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=LA
https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N369XT
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Media:
A small plane crashed near the Henderson Executive Airport on Wednesday: http://t.co/1iElwAelyN pic.twitter.com/CV0iCBpVhd
— 8 News NOW (@8NewsNow) November 5, 2014Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Nov-2014 01:59 | Geno | Added |
| 06-Nov-2014 06:40 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 06-Nov-2014 07:53 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Nature, Embed code] |
| 06-Nov-2014 11:30 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn] |
| 06-Nov-2014 13:14 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 08-Sep-2017 19:47 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 26-Aug-2020 19:09 | Aerossurance | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code] |
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