- Date
- May 11, 1981
- Place
- Hollywood, FL · HOLLYWOOD, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5849YPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810511023469A
- Case key
- 125581
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1193 81/5/11 HOLLYWOOD,FL PIPER PA-23 CR- 1 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 44, 13000 TIME - 0948 N5849Y PX- 0 0 0 TEST TOTAL HOURS, 1000 IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - NORTH PERRY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HOLLYWOOD,FL LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- PLT RPRTD R ENG ROUGH,RPM DROPPED.CP STATED NO ENG FAIL.R WNG HIT GND,ABRUPT NOSE HI,LOW SPD TURN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5849Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- North Perry
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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.