- Date
- June 4, 1984, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kankakee, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1700WPiper PA-23-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840604021889A
- Case key
- 12639
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After departing the arpt, the plt elected to practice emergency procedures. He shut down & feathered the left eng about 4 mi south of the arpt at 4000 ft MSL. He then tried to restart the eng, but reported that the battery did not have enough pwr to turn the eng over fast enough to restart. After several attempts to restart the eng, he turned toward the arpt to land with the left eng feathered. The acft was equipped with only 1 eng driven hydraulic pump & it was driven by the left eng. With the left eng shut down, the plt had to lower the hydraulically operated gear with a hand pump. During an apch to rwy 22, he did not allow enough time to pump the gear down, so he decided to land on rwy 34. He applied full pwr to the right eng, but could not maintain his altitude, so he 'tightened up the pattern.' The plt said he did not have enough alt to get the acft lined up before it hit the ground, wing tip 1st. It crash landed on the right side of rwy 34, slid across the rwy & came to rest on the opposite side. The plt had ttl of 0.6 hrs in make/model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1700W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23-1891
- Airframe hours
- 5,876
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B3B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rusk Aviation,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Rusk Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 9, 1983 · 33 hours before
- Airport
- IKK · Kankaee, runway 34, 3,200 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,300 total · 3,022 as pilot in command · 214 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IKK
FAA reports on this event · 1
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