- Date
- June 22, 1986, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Punta Gorda, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9625JPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860622074719A
- Case key
- 31657
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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
The plt stated that after a 20 minute flight on a long final approach the engine sputtered & quit. A forced landing was made in a residential area and the acft went through a ditch severing the landing gear. Post crash examination of the carburetor revealed that a piece of plastic had become trapped between the needle & seat assy in the carburetor, cutting off the flow of fuel to the cylinders.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9625J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-3781
- Airframe hours
- 1,082
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Waldo L.Conrad
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PGD
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
- 71
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,022 total · 6 in this make and model · 3,022 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PGD, 1 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.