- Date
- March 15, 1984, 14:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Warrenton, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N63857Piper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840315006369A
- Case key
- 6423
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The CFI shut down one engine during takeoff for a simulated emergency and the plt taking instruction applied the incorrect rudder action during the aborted takeoff and left full power on the operating right engine. The CFI was unableto correct the resulting acft swerve to the left into a dirt embankment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63857
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-7854007
- Airframe hours
- 570
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Theodore C. Wilbar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 10, 1983 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- W66 · Warrenton, runway 32, 4,160 × 60 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 7,380 total · 427 in this make and model · 7,210 as pilot in command · 114 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- 24 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.