- Date
- December 15, 1985, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Joy, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7177WPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30277
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Lubricating system,oil line - burstCause
Forced landing
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
Piper aircraft was in cruise flight from lancaster, PA to mt joy, PA. When an oil line apparently fractured. An emergecny landing was made in a field. During landing, the nose collapsed and the aircraft was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7177W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-984
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul N. Shank, Jr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LNS · Lancaster, PA
- Destination
- 40PN · Mt. Joy, PA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Other investigations on N7177W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.