- Date
- April 22, 1980
- Place
- Bowling Green, KY · BOWLING GREEN, KY
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N32992Piper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report September 3, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800422011559A
- Case key
- 131364
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0951 80/4/22 BOWLING GREEN,KY PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 37, 183 TIME - 1655 N32992 PX- 1 2 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 84 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BOWLING GREEN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HUNTINGTON,WV SPRINGFIELD,TN TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: DESCENDING COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING PILOT IN COMMAND - MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION FACTOR(S) POWERPLANT - POWERPLANT-INSTRUMENTS: FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ERRATIC MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND LOW ON FUEL REMARKS- PAX RPRTD-FUEL GAUGE SHOWED TANKS 1/4 FULL WHEN ENG QUIT.ACFT APRX 21LBS OVR MAX GROSS WT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32992
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Bowling Green
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.