- Date
- July 1, 1974
- Place
- Marine City, MI · MARINE CITY, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2WMPiper PA-31
- Status
- Completed · report July 1, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19740701020959A
- Case key
- 128118
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1924 74/7/1 MARINE CITY,MICH PIPER PA-31 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 52, 4920 TIME - 1945 N2WM PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 60 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MARINE CITY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LAST ENROUTE STOP MARINE CITY,MICH LOCAL ROMEO,MICH TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - FUEL SYSTEM: FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM PILOT IN COMMAND - SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- ON FINAL R ENG FUEL FLOW FLUCTUATED.PLT ELECTED ABORT LDG.CLBD OVR TREES,WIRES.UN MNTN ALT,LNDD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2WM
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Marine City
N2WMRegistered now · Piper PA-31-310Airframe modelPiper PA-31-310Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 series
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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