LAX93LA164 · ROY REY AVID FLYER
ROY REY AVID FLYER · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Shafter Airport - Minter Field (MIT) to Bakersfield International Airport (L45)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX93LA164
- 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
- 0 · 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
ROY REY AVID FLYER
- Aircraft type
- Roy Rey AVID FLYER
- 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
- N827H
- Operator
- Roy G. Rey · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Shafter Airport - Minter Field (MIT), Shafter, CATo Bakersfield International Airport (L45), Bakersfield, CA
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fuel system, carburetor › Ice
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRPLANE EXPERIENCED A POWER LOSS DURING CRUISE FLIGHT. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO EXECUTE A FORCED LANDING IN A FRESHLY PLOWED FIELD, BUT NOSED OVER IN THE SOFT SOIL. THE PILOT STATED THAT ALL HE COULD THINK OF IS CARB ICING. HE STATED THAT THE TEMPERATURE WAS DROPPING FAST, WITH AIR TEMPERATURE AT 66 DEGREES F (FAHRENHEIT), DEW POINT 38 DEGREES F. THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE IS NOT EQUIPPED WITH A CARBURETOR HEAT SYSTEM. ACCORDING TO THE ICING PROBABILITY CHARTS, THE FLIGHT CONDITIONS WERE SUCH THAT THE PROBABILITY FOR CARBURETOR ICING WAS HIGH DURING CRUISE AND GLIDING FLIGHT.
Probable cause
CARBURETOR ICING. FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE LACK OF A CARBURETOR HEAT CONTROL SYSTEM AND THE FRESHLY PLOWED FIELD.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX93LA164
- Event ID
- 20001211X12163
- Case number
- LAX93LA164
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-04-05.
- API snapshot SHA-256: fa94c950ec10dfedf65f2b906fb52eab87c3837da041c2f3259bec024c8256bf; retrieved 2026-09-23T02:13:10.505Z.