- Date
- February 14, 1987, 08:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N7559LPiper PA-31
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870214003329A
- Case key
- 17135
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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
While taxiing from a cargo ramp for takeoff on an IFR flt, the acft taxied off the ramp into the infield on the arpt and came to rest with the engines running. Ramp personnel boarded the acft, shut the engines down and summoned medical help for the plt who suffered a seizure-like incapacitation. He was transported to a hospital for treatment. His airmans medical certification was suspended by the FAA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7559L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 317300946
- Airframe hours
- 4,044
- Engine
- Lycoming TI0-540-A2C, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Western Aviators
- Registered owner
- International Air Charter Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 20, 1987 · 38 hours before
- Destination
- GJT · Grand Junction, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DEN · Stapleton
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,200 total · 51 in this make and model · 5,138 as pilot in command · 225 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.