- Date
- December 11, 1986, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- N. Manitou Isl., MI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N32693Piper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861211067269A
- Case key
- 13623
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 plt had recvd an unfavorable wx brief that included a SIGMET on flt icing. Enroute during flt over a large body of water he experienced power loss and was at too low a altitude to glide to shore. The plt attempted to ld on a island but crashed in a lake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32693
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7535078
- Airframe hours
- 6,002
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Northern Airmotive
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 10, 1987 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- MQT · Marquette, MI
- Destination
- TVC · Traverse City, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- TVC · Cherry Capital
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,250 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TVC, 30 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.