- Date
- October 25, 1987, 17:14 local (23:14 UTC)
- Place
- Brownsville, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7969YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871025060609A
- Case key
- 22590
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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 executing a single engine ILS approach to a touch and go landing, the CFI pulled the mixture control on the right engine. Upon landing the pilot applied full power to both engines but the right engine did not respond. About 2 ft above the rwy the aircraft rolled to the right and contacted the ground 100 ft right of the centerline collapsing the left main gear, nose gear, and damaging the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7969Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 301068
- Airframe hours
- 1,752
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- M&S Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 26, 1987 · 103 hours before
- Departed
- BRO
- Destination
- BRO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BRO · Brownsville Arpt, runway 13, 7,400 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 931 total · 271 in this make and model · 687 as pilot in command · 216 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.