In the middle of landing the engine cuts out. After assessing the situation, the pilot elects to put the airplane down in a field.
Aviation Safety Reporting System
Mechanic’s error leads to MayDay call
At about 7 nm out and 3,000 feet the propeller RPM began climbing sharply well beyond 2,600 RPM. I tried to change the prop and throttle settings to get the prop RPMs back under control and I had no success getting the RPMs out of the red. This continued for a short time (well under a minute) and I distinctly remember a bang, and then smoke began to fill the cabin. I opened the small window to my left in an attempt to clear the smoke and I continued to fly the plane.
Deviation from normal operations results in engine losing power
“It is striking to me that there were three separate events deviating from my normal habits of operation: Inspect fuel immediately after fueling, do not re-start a pre-flight in the middle, never take off without dipping all four fillers. Had I conformed to my normal habits on any of the three, this would not have happened.”
Distraught controller, busy airspace a bad combination
The Controller began shouting to all of the pilots “I don’t have radar! I see two targets converging to the south!” The Controller sounded very anxious.
NORDO airplane has near miss at Cable Airport
“After rolling out on final, I ended up wingtip to wingtip within a 1/2 mile of Aircraft Y. I must not have been able to see the aircraft due to ground clutter.”
Fuel problems lead to forced landing in a field
Returning from a camping trip, while descending over mountains east of ZZZ near ZZZ1 the fuel low level light came on in my homebuilt. I checked the fuel and the sight gauge on the right tank showed half full indicating at least 6.5 gallons of fuel. The left tank sight gauge showed empty.
Plane has near miss with skydiver, then jump plane
Shortly after I lifted off, the skydiver turned right in front of me. I made a sharp turn to the right, just clearing the trees and ended up buzzing a neighborhood.
Pilot calls out CFI and student as ‘all over the place’
My student pilot and I had just entered the pattern from a 45° leg to left downwind when a call on CTAF addressed us by call sign, asked our intentions, and said we were “all over the place.”
Near miss when pilot does opposite of his radio calls
Throughout the duration of our flight, the aircraft in question appeared to operate without regard for us or other aircraft in its vicinity, and had we not taken the evasive action that we did, a collision would have been highly likely.