# Incident 19960208001469I: Piper PA28140, Marshfield, WI, February 8, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 8, 1996, 17:30 local time
- Place: Marshfield, WI
- Airport: Marshfield Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Forced Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.6369° N, 90.1893° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MARSHFIELD MUNI (MFI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.6369&lon=-90.1893&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4494X, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4494X-2000-08-17) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28140
- Reported engine: LYC O320E3D
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 118 total, 60 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960208001469I

## Narrative

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

NARRATIVE: THROTTLE JAMMED. ON FEBRUARY 8, 1996, AT APPROXIMATELY 1730 (CST) PIPER, PA28-140, N4449X, EXPERIENCED A JAMMED THROTTLE AND MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING 60 YARDS SHORT OF THE APPROACH END OF RUNWAY 34 MARHSFIELD (MFI) WISCONSIN. THE PRIVATE PILOT AND ONE PASSENGER DID NOT REPORT ANY INJURIES. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE. VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. A FLIGHT PLAN WAS NOT FILED. ON FEBRAURY 9, 1996, THE SITE WAS VISITED AND THE PILOT INTERVIEWED. THE PILOT STATED THAT ON FINAL HE WANTED TO APPLY POWER BUT THE THROTTLE WOULD NOT MOVE. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO FREE THE THROTTLE, HE LANDED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY INVESTIGATION OF THE THROTTLE INTEGRITY REVEALED A BEND IN THE THROTTLE HOUSING (SHEATH) AT THE CARBURETOR END CAUSING INTERFERENCE WITH THE THROTTLE MOVEMENT NEAR THE IDLE SETTING. DUE TO DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE AIRCRAFT IT CANNOT BE DETERMINED IF THIS INTERFERENCE WAS EXISTING PRIOR TO IMPACT OR A RESULT OF THE IMPACT. A MALFUCTION OF DEFECT REPORT, FAA FORM 8010-4, HAS BEEN SUBMITTED PERTINENT TO THIS INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N4494X (1)

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

- [Accident 20000317010629A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000317010629A), Mar 17, 2000: Piper PA28140 (N4494X), Dighton, KS, Destroyed, 3 fatal. (-23) On 3/17/00 a Piper PA-28-140 departed the front range airport in denver co. enroute to the benton airport in benton, KS. The pilot requested and received…

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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