- Date
- December 10, 1988, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8356PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881210064619A
- Case key
- 34734
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a local familarization and acceptance flight for the new acft owner, smoke entered the cockpit and oil pressure was lost. A precautionary emergency ldg was attempted on a soft, muddy, plowed farm field, resulting in substantial damage to the acft. Post-accident investigation revealed an oil cooler inlet line had ruptured and had dripped oil onto the exhaust system, causing smoke and subsequent loss of oil pressure. The line was wrapped with asbestos and had become very brittle. The oil line was original equipment and had a total time of 2872 hours. The acft had just recently received an annual inspection and had flown less then one hour since the inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8356P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-3612
- Airframe hours
- 2,872
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Messer, Maurice O
- Registered owner
- Messer, Maurice O
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 9, 1988 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- 1M1 · N. Little Rock, AR
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,003 total · 1 in this make and model · 1,863 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 10 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.