- Date
- August 14, 1986, 17:26 local (21:26 UTC)
- Place
- Ft.Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N36LSPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860814039529A
- Case key
- 31693
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Flt experienced loss of power in the left engine shortly after takeoff due to corrosion blocking the main jet in the fuel control unit. The pilot feathered the engine and returned for a landing. While on short final he remembered he would have to manually extend the landing gear due to the gear hydraulic pump being installed on the left engine. When he completed extending the landing gear the aircraft was half way down the runway and the pilot attempted a go around with the gear down and only one engine operating. Altitude and airspeed could not be maintained and the pilot attempted a landing on the taxi way of an adjacent runway. The aircraft touched down hard and the aircraft ran off the left side of the taxi way into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N36LS
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-7405253
- Airframe hours
- 3,310
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wesley R. Mccutcheon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 10, 1986 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- FXE · Ft. Lauderdale Executive, runway 26, 6,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 710 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FXE
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.