- Date
- December 20, 1979
- Place
- Tampa, FL · TAMPA, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N16ECPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19791220040079A
- Case key
- 132153
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3686 79/12/20 TAMPA,FL PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 35, 2426 TIME - 0921 N16EC PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 45 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PETER O.KNIGHT DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION TAMPA,FL ATLANTA,GA. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- LEANED MXTR DRG TKOF FOR MAX PWR,PULLED MXTR WHEN ENG RAN ROUGH.LNDD IN TURN AVOIDING OBSTRUCTIONS
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16EC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Peter O.Knight
N16ECRegistered now · Piper PA-28-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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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.