CHI94DCG01 · Davis TRI-Q 200
Davis TRI-Q 200 · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Gladewater Municipal Airport (07F)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI94DCG01
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Davis TRI-Q 200
- Aircraft type
- Davis TRI-Q 200
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N800Q
- Operator
- William G. Mcbryde · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Gladewater Municipal Airport (07F), Gladewater, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aircraft control, not maintained
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Joplin, MO, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE NON-CERTIFICATED PILOT HAD JUST PURCHASED THE HOMEBUILT AIRPLANE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE FLIGHT. THE AIRPLANE HAD NOT BEEN INSPECTED SINCE 1989, AND HAD A HISTORY OF ENGINE PROBLEMS. TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO THE SALE, THE SELLER ADVISED THE PILOT NOT TO FLY THE AIRPLANE BUT TO TRAILER IT HOME. THE SELLER ALSO DID NOT FEEL THE PILOT WAS QUALIFIED TO FLY. DURING TAXI TO THE FUELING RAMP, THE ENGINE WAS OBSERVED QUITTING TWICE. DURING FUELING, THE PILOT DID NOT KNOW HOW TO LOCATE THE SECOND TANK. DURING TAKEOFF, THE AIRPLANE WAS OBSERVED TO LOSE ALTITUDE, TURN BACK TOWARD THE FIELD, AND IMPACT THE GROUND. THE AIRPLANE WAS CONSUMED BY POST-CRASH FIRE.
Probable cause
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS, AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT INTENTIONALLY OPERATING AN AIRPLANE WITH KNOWN DEFICIENCIES, HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE AIRPLANE, AND HIS OVERCONFIDENCE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI94DCG01
- Event ID
- 20001206X01222
- Case number
- CHI94DCG01
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ae15e1ba1d4766df273a6c83751a6a0734c27e5094fd7f0f004a541da9595324; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:09:12.595Z.