- Date
- January 16, 1983, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- New Hope, PA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8604CPiper PA-22-135
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830116001019A
- Case key
- 35096
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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 acft collided with a power line while the pilot and a friend in another plane were flying along the deleware river. The plt reported that as he approached a bridge, he climbed to clear over the bridge and some power lines, then started to descend. He stated that the next thing he remembered was waking up in the water. He was pulled from the water by a man who lived nearby.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8604C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-135
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-1289
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John A. Nixon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 21, 1982 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- N40 · Pittstown, NJ
- Destination
- N54 · Langhorne, PA
- Airport
- N54 · Buehl Field
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,173 total · 1,040 in this make and model · 1,143 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.