- Date
- September 6, 1985, 16:35 local (20:35 UTC)
- Place
- Shuffletown, NC
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6102JPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850906043639A
- Case key
- 6671
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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 acft contacted a fence during a forced landing following a loss of pwr. The flt orginated at grand ledge, MI, at 1100 EST and an unscheduled landing was made at adrian, MI, because of wx. The flt departed adrian, MI, at 1320 EDT. The plt reported that during the descent into charlotte int'l airport fuel pressure was lost and shortly thereafter, theeng quit. Inspection of the acft disclosed no presence of fuel in either the fuel tanks nor in the fuel flow divider.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6102J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7635297
- Airframe hours
- 2,381
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard E. Hintz
- Registered owner
- Hintz, Hilton,Sackreider
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 1985 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- ADG · Adrain, MI
- Destination
- CLT · Charlotte, NC
- Airport
- CLT · Charlotte/Dulles Int'L, runway 18R, 10,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,161 total · 200 in this make and model · 986 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLT, 5 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.