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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW87DRA01

1987-03-02 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N815DB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2011

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110324

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1C3C

Registrant of record

R&R DAREDEVILS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PROP SEPARATED DURING FLT AND THE PLT WAS FORCED TO LAND THE ACFT ON ROUGH TERRAIN. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE PROP HAD SEPARATED AS A RESULT OF A PREVIOUSLY EXISTING CRACK IN THE ENG CRANKSHAFT. THE ENG HAD BEEN REBUILT FROM COMPONENTS SALVAGED FROM AN ENG INVOLVED IN A PREVIOUS WRECK AND INSTALLED BY A NON-CERTIFICATED MECHANIC. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1987_FTW87DRA01.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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