- Date
- May 1, 1982, 12:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Erie, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N13845Piper PA-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 1, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 70611
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Analysis
The aircraft lost power during takeoff climb and was landed straight ahead resulting in substantial damage. The fuel selector valve was hard to move and during tests moving it caused the engines to quit. Piper AD 80-18-10 warns that scott manufactured selector valves "could cause power loss due to malfunction of the valves". Disassembly of the valve on this aircraft revealed scratch marks on the sliding portion indicative of binding.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13845
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-4486
- Airframe hours
- 3,270
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Jennifer H. Maguire
- Registered owner
- Aero Systems, Inc.
- Departed
- 48V · Erie, CO
- Destination
- 48V · Garden City, KS
- Airport
- 48V · Erie Airpark, runway 15, 5,400 × 75 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
- 31
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,358 total · 50 in this make and model · 3,097 as pilot in command · 94 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Temperature
- 167 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg