- Date
- September 15, 1984, 03:36 local (07:36 UTC)
- Place
- Buffalo, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4512EPiper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840915028769A
- Case key
- 35368
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.
Loss of engine power(total) - nonmechanical
Fluid,fuel - exhaustionCause
Preflight planning/preparation - inadequateCause
Fuel consumption calculations - improperCause
Ifr procedure - improperCause
ComplacencyCause
Forced landing
In flight collision with object
Object - utility pole
Analysis
The acft crashed on main street, Buffalo, NY, while executing a forced landing during an air taxi cargo operation. Investigation revealed that based on fuel consumption calculations the plt had not allowed for all contingencies during his orginal flt planning & the acft was operated in avery precarious condition during the latter stages of flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4512E
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970444
- Airframe hours
- 1,820
- Engine
- Continental 7S10-360-EB, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Sair Aviation
- Registered owner
- Gregory & Stephens Leasing Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 5, 1984 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- MKG · Muskegon, MI
- Destination
- SYR · Syracuse, NY
- Airport
- BUF · Greater Buffalo Int'L, runway 5, 8,102 × 150 ft, macadam
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,543 total · 41 in this make and model · 3,955 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 70° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15,000 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BUF, 5 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.