- Date
- November 14, 1987, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Murfreesboro, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N41298Piper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871114069729A
- Case key
- 7677
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.
Analysis
The rt wheel brake failed while the airplane was taxiing on a parallel taxiway. The failure occurred near the end of the taxiway, just as the plt was about to turn the airplane onto the rwy. The plt subsequently attempted to turn the airplane using differential power. The airplane crossed the rwy and ran into trees on the opposite side of the rwy. The plt pulled the mixture controls to idle cutoff just before the airplane ran off the rwy. The airplane sustained structural damage to one of the wings. Post-accident examination of the rt brake revealed that the brake pads were completely worn away. The acft rptdly underwent an annual inspection about 1 month before the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41298
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7450106
- Airframe hours
- 2,569
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Coastal Flight Center, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Johannes Van Ovost
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 18, 1987 · 59 hours before
- Airport
- MBT · Murfreesboro Muni
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
- 22
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 950 total · 250 in this make and model · 790 as pilot in command · 194 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.