19800426010849A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Piper PA-30 · Okeechobee, FL · April 26, 1980

Date
April 26, 1980 · 17:30 local
Place
Okeechobee, FL
Airport
River Acres
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N44RE
NTSB investigation
NTSBMIA80FLD62
Reported as
Piper PA30
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total800 in this make and model20 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Reported left flap stuck down on takeoff. Throttled left engine. Crashed. Paint in flap track. Right prop low RPM.

As the FAA filed it

REPORTED LEFT FLAP STUCK DOWN ON TAKEOFF. THROTTLED LEFT ENGINE. CRASHED. PAINT IN FLAP TRACK. RIGHT PROP LOW RPM.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.