# Incident 19900807041949I: Piper PA28140, Montgomery, NY, August 7, 1990

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 7, 1990, 08:15 local time
- Place: Montgomery, NY
- Airport: Orange County Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.5118° N, 74.2635° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ORANGE COUNTY (MGJ), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.5118&lon=-74.2635&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1840J, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N1840J-2017-07-07) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28140
- Reported engine: LYC O320E2A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 70 total, 70 in this make and model, 11 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19900807041949I

## Narrative

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

ENGINE FAILED TO RESPOND WHEN THROTTLE APPLIED. INSTRUCTOR SUSPECTS STUDENT JAMMED FULL THROTTLE AND FLOODED ENGINE

## Other reports on N1840J (1)

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

- [Incident 19901107058179I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19901107058179I), Nov 7, 1990: Piper PA28140 (N1840J), Montgomery, NY. Throttle linkage became slack due to mechanical malfuntion. Landed safely on highway.

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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