- Date
- October 9, 1986, 04:20 local (09:20 UTC)
- Place
- Crestwood, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6955YPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861009048449A
- Case key
- 13551
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
The aircraft was flown without authorization from the owner by unknown person(s). Upon landing, directional control was lost. The aircraft skidded off the runway into an aircraft tie-down area and collided with a parked aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6955Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 274320
- Airframe hours
- 835
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Vee-Jay Products, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1985 · 14 hours before
- Airport
- 3HW · Howell, runway 13, 3,500 × 40 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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.