LAX92LA395 · Abrams/Nuding QUICKIE Q2
Abrams/Nuding QUICKIE Q2 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure) en route
From an unrecorded airport to Hawthorne Industrial Airport (HTH)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX92LA395
- 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
Abrams/Nuding QUICKIE Q2
- Aircraft type
- Abrams/nuding QUICKIE Q2
- 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
- N4AN
- Operator
- Peter Coltman
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Hawthorne Industrial Airport (HTH), Hawthorne, NV
- 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 · climb to 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
- Partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure)
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Fuel starvation
- 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
- Fluid, fuel › Starvation
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE AIRPLANE HAD JUST BEEN PURCHASED THE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT AND WAS BEING FLOWN FROM CALIFORNIA TO TEXAS. THE PILOT STATED THAT AFTER DEPARTURE WHILE CRUISE CLIMBING THROUGH 8400 FEET MSL, THE ENGINE LOST APPROX 300 RPM AND RAN ROUGH. THE PILOT SAID HE VERIFIED THAT THE BOOST PUMP AS ON AND THE FUEL PRESSURE WAS NORMAL (4.5 TO 5.0 PSI.). NEXT THE PILOT NOTICED THAT THE EGT WAS 100 TO 150 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT HIGHTER THAN NORMAL (1200 DEGREES F.). THE PILOT RICHENED THE MIXTURE AND THE EGT CONTINUED TO RISE WITH NO CHANGE IN POWER. THE PILOT STATED THAT THE ENGINE ABRUPTLY LOST ALMOST ALL POWER AND SURGED INTERMITTENTLY FROM IDLE TO FIFTY PERCENT OF IT'S POWER. AT THAT POINT THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO LOCATE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AREA. THE PILOT STATED HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS CARBURETOR ICE BECAUSE OF THE TEMPERATURES AT THE TIME. HE SAID HE FELT THAT IT WAS A FUEL BLOCKAGE OR INTAKE LEAK CAUSING A LEAN MIXTURE. WRECKAGE EXAMINATION REVEALED NO OBVIOUS MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS.
Probable cause
FUEL STARVATION FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE UNSUITABLE NATURE OF THE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING ATTEMPT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX92LA395
- Event ID
- 20001211X15729
- Case number
- LAX92LA395
- 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: 343764c9a8247bfc6ccaf12dfaf4450e1171efe90c412d133171c0fd26d5e6bd; retrieved 2026-09-21T23:07:25.397Z.