- Date
- September 22, 1991, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Fe, NM
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2FJPiper PA-31T-620
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910922044519A
- Case key
- 18136
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Probable cause
Inadvertent deactivation of aircraft brakes by unqualified person.
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
As the pilot approached the airplane, he noticed the owner had started the right engine. The owner was not a certificated pilot but had taken some flying lessons. The pilot removed the nosewheel chock in preparation for departure. The airplane started moving. The pilot tried pushing on the airplane but to no avail. The airplane rolled into two parked airplanes.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2FJ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31T-620
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31T-7620050
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-28, 620 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Brazos Roofing Intl., Inc.
- Registered owner
- Brazos Roofing Intl., Inc.
- Destination
- ACT · Waco, TX
- Airport
- SAF · Santa Fe Municipal
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,250 total · 450 in this make and model · 4,100 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.