- Date
- November 3, 1988, 13:14 local (21:14 UTC)
- Place
- Anaheim, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9467NPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881103049059A
- Case key
- 26189
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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
Five minutes after departure and during normal cruise flight, the certified flight instructor noticed a prop overspeed. He immediately pulled back on the prop control to reduce engine r.p.m. and instructed the student, a private pilot, to divert to the airplane's home base. Two minutes after the overspeed the engine 'sputtered' for 5 seconds and seized. The instructor took control of the airplane and executed a forced landing on a hillside. The airplane brushed small branches at the top of a tree and collided with the terrain. The pilot stated that he 'used all the airspeed to reach a suitable landing spot', and could not flare the airplane to cushion the landing. An examination of the engine revealed evidence of an oil exhaustion. The oil quick drain was found to be in the open and locked position. An examination of records revealed that the drain was the incorrect part. There was an AD concerning the incorrect oil drain being opened by contact with the lndg gear during retraction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9467N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-35183
- Airframe hours
- 6,025
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Registered owner
- U.S. Marine Corps.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 6, 1988 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- CNO · Chino, CA
- Destination
- SNA · Santa Ana, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 50 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 212 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SNA, 13 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.