- Date
- March 6, 1984, 10:53 local (16:53 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N777RGPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840306006989A
- Case key
- 21107
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft made a forced landing in an open field near the arpt when the right engine stopped at about 50-100 ft AGL during a touch and go landing. The CFI aboard said he had positioned the fuel tank selector to the inboard tanks prior to the last approach or the one before and did not touch them again. Post accident investigation showed the left selector was on the inboard tank. The right selector was positioned to off and the crossfeed control was off. During theemergency the landing gear was not retracted a right engine restart was not attempted. The right engine was not feathered and a turn of 145 degrees was made into the 'dead' engine. A rwy aligned with the takeoff rwy was less than 3 miles ahead. The acft landed gear down and flaps up. Both main gear separated on landing. When the fuel system, was properly positioned after the accident and the acft put on a flatbed both engines operated satisfactorily.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N777RG
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-4216
- Airframe hours
- 3,024
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jacquelin Laurent, doing business as Pegasus Aeronautical Center
- Registered owner
- Aero Plane Shop,Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 28, 1983
- Departed
- FTW · Ft. Worth, TX
- Airport
- FTW · Meacham Field
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 581 total · 16 in this make and model · 474 as pilot in command · 192 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N777RG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.