- Date
- June 29, 1983, 17:05 local (21:05 UTC)
- Place
- Pittsfield, MA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6638YPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830629027529A
- Case key
- 35215
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
On the 1st takeoff, the CFI demonstrated an aborted takeoff by placing the rt selector gasoline valve in the off position and had the student pull the eng back, making a landing on the rwy. The flt then taxied back for another takeoff, again the CFI shut off the rt gas tank, the acft became airborne and the eng quit. The student had retracted the landing gear during the sequence and the acft landed gear-up.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6638Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 273950
- Airframe hours
- 7,092
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540LB, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- James C. Stalker
- Registered owner
- Berkshire Aviation Ent. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 25, 1983 · 52 hours before
- Departed
- GBR · Great Barringtn, MA
- Destination
- PSF · Pittsfield, MA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- PSG · Pittsfield, runway 20, 3,500 × 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,103 total · 447 in this make and model · 1,843 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PSF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.