# Incident 19880923070879I: Piper PA44180T, Atlantic City, NJ, September 23, 1988

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 23, 1988, 17:43 local time
- Place: Atlantic City, NJ
- Airport: Atlantic City International
- Phase of flight: Initial Approach-IFR
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.4576° N, 74.5772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ATLANTIC CITY INTL (ACY), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.4576&lon=-74.5772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3040A, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N3040A-1999-07-19) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-44-180 (registry code 7104402, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-44-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA44180T
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880923070879I

## Narrative

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

DETERMINED THAT ATC HAD ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH PILOT. ATC TAPE DOES NOT SUBSTANTIATE AN ARSR VIOLATION.

## Other reports on N3040A (1)

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

- [Accident 19981009028739A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981009028739A), Oct 9, 1998: Piper PA44180 (N3040A), Howell, MI, Destroyed, 2 fatal. Acft crashed while attempting to go around with the number 2 engine out. (.19) on October 9, 1998, at 1530 eastern daylight time (EDT), a Piper PA-44-180,…

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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