- Date
- May 16, 1984, 15:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sayville, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N73748Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840516017159A
- Case key
- 35561
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
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Forced landing
Ditching
Analysis
About 6 min after departure the pilot experienced a total loss of power and advised the tower that he would be landing in the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73748
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267647
- Airframe hours
- 2,700
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mid-Country Flyers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1983 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- ISP · Sayville, NY
- Destination
- Brookhaven, NY
- Airport
- L. I. Mcarthur
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 155 total · 8 in this make and model · 86 as pilot in command · 81 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.