- Date
- March 23, 1982, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jackson, MI
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N37174Cessna 414
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820323005269A
- Case key
- 71163
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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
At approximately 90K after liftoff from a touch & go the copilot, who was flying from the left seat, indicated problems with the right eng. The plt had been observing trucks on the right side of the rwy. He stated they could have set it back down except he thought they might swerve into the trucks. He was not specifically looking at the instruments because of the trucks. He took control & the acft settled adjacent to the rwy & burst into flames. Inspection of the right eng revealed all but one of the 12 spark plugs were sooty. The plugs were installed in a new engine & the eng obtained takeoff RPM.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37174
- Reported as
- Cessna 414
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 414A0252
- Airframe hours
- 680
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gimbel Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- JXN · Jackson, MI
- Destination
- JXN · Jackson, MI
- Airport
- JXN · Reynolds Muni, runway 23, 5,275 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,500 total · 57 in this make and model · 4,500 as pilot in command · 310 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 122 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.