- Date
- September 15, 1988, 08:30 local (12:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gray, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N32105Piper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880915038979A
- Case key
- 7813
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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
Instructor said that after completing a stall series the engine began to backfire continously & power was lost so that he could not maintain altitude. An off airport landing was made and a fence was hit during the landing roll. Eng had been overhauled & installed in acft 36 hours prior. FAA maintenance inspector described overhaul as good. No eng maintenance had been done since eng installed in acft. Acft was parked on outside ramp. FAA inspector found the nuts & lockwashers missing from the no. 3 cylinder valve rocker shaft hold down plates which allowed the exhaust rocker shaft to back out of the cylinder and the intake rocker shaft to back out of the cylinder. Result was loss of operation of the no. 3 cylinder & significant loss of engine power. All remaining rocker shaft nuts were tight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32105
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7535025
- Airframe hours
- 2,156
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Miresse Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 14, 1988 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- MAC · Macon, GA
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,282 total · 70 in this make and model · 1,083 as pilot in command · 191 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN, 19 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.
Other investigations on N32105 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.