- Date
- March 27, 1988, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Summerville, SC
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N410JQPiper PA-28-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7593
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Fluid,fuel - starvationCause
Mixture control,cable - disconnectedCause
Maintenance,inspection - inadequateCause
Forced landing
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N410JQ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-10557
- Airframe hours
- 3,618
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-B4B3, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert Veitch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 14, 1987 · 22 hours before
- Airport
- Old Summerville Airport, runway 3, 2,150 × 90 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 570 total · 48 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHS