# Accident 20000519007829A: Piper PA23160, Titusville, FL, May 19, 2000

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 19, 2000, 09:12 local time
- Place: Titusville, FL
- Airport: Space Center Executive Airport
- Damage: No damage
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 28.5803° N, 80.8201° W: From the FAA, an estimate near the named town, within about 3 miles
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=28.5803&lon=-80.8201&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3492P, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N3492P-2014-12-15) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-23-160 (registry code 7102304, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-23-160) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA23160
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB MIA00FA163](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA00FA163) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000519007829A

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON MAY 19, 200, AT APPROXIMATELY 0912 EDT A PIPER PA-23-160 AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN THE VICINITY OF THE TITUSVILLE SPACE CENTER EXECUTIVE AIRPORT (TIX) WHILE BEING OPERATED ON TITLE 49, 14 CFR PART 91 INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT. THE COMMERCIALLY RATED INSTRUCTOR PILOT SURVIVED THE ACCIDENT, THE STUDENTDID NOT.  THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR STATED IN A SUBSEQUENT STATMENT THAT THEY WERE PRACTICING EMERGENCY PROCEDURES IN THE TRAFFIC PATTERN AND THAT HE HAD RETARDED THE MIXTURE CONTROL ON THE RIGHT ENGINE, THE STUDENT CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED THE ENGINE AND ZERO THRUST WAS ESTABLISHED.   THE AIRCRAFT THEN GOT "SLOW" AND THE STUDENT LOST CONTROL, THE INSTRUCTOR RECOVERED WITH SOME LOSS OF ALITITUDE AND CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT WAS RETURNED TO THE STUDENT.  THE INSTRUCTOR STATED THAT HE THEN NOTICED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS GETTING SLOW AGAIN, BELOW VMC, THE STUDENT AGAIN LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT AND IN THIS INCIDENT THE INSTRUCTOR WAS UNABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT.

## 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 MIA00FA163](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA00FA163), May 19, 2000: Piper PA-23-160 (N3492P), Titusville, FL, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The failure of the PIC to maintain control of the aircraft while in the simulated engine inoperative configuration in the landing pattern during a checkout flight resulting in an uncontrolled descent…

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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