- Date
- March 22, 1993, 12:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Babylon, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N56153Piper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930322034299A
- Case key
- 11920
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power due to the intake valve failure.
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 instructor and student were on a return flight after practicing some commercial maneuvers, when there was a loss of engine power during the climb to cruise flight. According to the instructor, when the loss of power occurred at about 1200 feet above the ground, he immediately turned the airplane to a 180 degree heading and completed the emergency procedures. He stated that he arrived over ocean parkway at 100 feet MSL and the airplane struck the ground in a left wing low attitude. The airplane struck a telephone pole before coming to rest on the west bound lane of ocean parkway. An examination of the engine by the FAA revealed zero compression in both the number 1 and 2 cylinders. Further examination of the cylinders revealed failure of the number 1 intake valve tip and damage to the number 2 and 4 cylinders.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56153
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7335367
- Airframe hours
- 2,445
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flying Ten Inc.
- Registered owner
- Flying Ten Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 22, 1992 · 815 hours before
- Departed
- HWV · Shirley, NY
- Destination
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 590 total · 67 in this make and model · 420 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 23,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FRG, 1 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.