ERA21LA192 · Meyeres F L/Meyeres M M SKYSTAR KTFOX CLSC 4
Meyeres F L/Meyeres M M SKYSTAR KTFOX CLSC 4 · Accident: fuel related while maneuvering
From Oconee County Regional Airport (CEU) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA21LA192
- 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
Meyeres F L/Meyeres M M SKYSTAR KTFOX CLSC 4
- Aircraft type
- Meyeres F L/meyeres SKYSTAR KTFOX CLSC 4
- 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
- N90KF
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Oconee County Regional Airport (CEU), Clemson, SCTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 13 years (built 2008)
- 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
- Maneuvering · low-altitude flying
- Defining eventThe 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
- Fuel related
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot reported that, while maneuvering at low altitude surveying fields in his experimental, amateur-built airplane, the engine stopped producing power about 600 ft above ground level (agl) and the propeller continued to windmill. He selected a field for a forced landing site, established the best glide speed, and turned on the electric fuel pump, which restored some power to the engine for about 10 seconds. He stated that when he realized that the airplane would not make it to the selected field, he reduced the throttle to idle and performed a forced landing into trees. Postaccident examination of the engine revealed no evidence of preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation; however, the engine was not equipped with carburetor heat as recommended in the engine installation manual. The weather conditions at the time of the accident were conducive to the formation of serious carburetor icing at cruise power engine power settings. Thus, it is likely that carburetor ice formed and subsequently resulted in the partial loss of engine power during the climb from the low pass over the field. Had carburetor heat been installed on the engine and been used during these low approaches, the ice accumulation likely would have been prevented.
Probable cause
A partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing. Contributing to the accident was the engine’s lack of carburetor heat.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA21LA192
- Event ID
- 20210426102977
- Case number
- ERA21LA192
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 500f9bd87b046ef627914ebff4b83d1703a189bd6f21f27d70fd7cb871380e98; retrieved 2026-09-16T13:59:01.869Z.