# NTSB ERA17WA321: Piper Piper PA-34-200T, Cerrione, Italy, September 9, 2017

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Foreign investigation
- Date: September 9, 2017, 09:00 local (09:00 UTC)
- Place: Cerrione, Italy
- Coordinates: 45.453056, 8.096111
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=45.4531&lon=8.0961&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 96003
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA17WA321
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/96003/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA17WA321

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Approach: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,074 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: G-STZA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION PIPER PA-34-200T (NO SERIES)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 34-7670196
- Year built: 1976
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Part 129
- Registered owner: Mauro Ghislieri
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: Piovera
- Destination: LILE, Cerrione
- Airport: LILE, Biella-Cerrione

## Weather

- Conditions: Instrument (IMC), Day
- Wind: 70° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling: 1,400 ft broken
- Temperature: 66 °F, dew point 59 °F

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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