# Accident 19930415009439A: Piper PA23250, Elizabethton, TN, April 15, 1993

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 15, 1993, 09:00 local time
- Place: Elizabethton, TN
- Airport: Elizabethton Municipal Airport
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.3572° N, 82.1708° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from the FAA’s distance and direction from , within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.3572&lon=-82.1708&mi=10
- Aircraft: N878D, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N878D-1993-10-06) (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
- Reported engine: LYC IO540C4B5
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,304 total, 792 in this make and model, 37 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ATL93LA072](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL93LA072) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19930415009439A

## Narrative

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

ROUGH LEFT ENGINE. HIGH TEMP. SHUTDOWN. DIVERTED TO ALTERNATE. UNABLE HOLD ALTITUDE. CRASHED, BURST INTO FLAMES.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ATL93LA072](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL93LA072), Apr 15, 1993: Piper PA-23-250 (N878D), Elizabethton, TN, destroyed. Probable cause: A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER ON ONE ENGINE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.

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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