# Incident 19830128008439I: Piper PA23250, Minneapolis, MN, January 28, 1983

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 28, 1983, 17:08 local time
- Place: Minneapolis, MN
- Airport: Wold Chamberlain
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Location: 44.9800° N, 93.2638° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Minneapolis, MN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.9800&lon=-93.2638&mi=10
- Aircraft: N63872, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N63872-1999-06-03) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-23-250 (registry code 7102308, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-23-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA23250
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 5,500 total, 1,500 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19830128008439I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PROPELLER STARTED TO OVERSPEED. REDUCED AIRSPEED TO BRING UNDER CONTROL. FOUND PROPELLER LOW ON NITROGEN.

## Other reports on N63872 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19940619018759A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940619018759A), Jun 19, 1994: Piper PA23250 (N63872), Blowing Rock, NC, Destroyed. Followed by us customs over cuba to Blowing Rock NC where it settled into trees and burned. Illegal drugs on board.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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