- Date
- October 1, 1986, 00:15 local (04:15 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8320APiper PA-28RT-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861001046859A
- Case key
- 30537
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
The pilot in command allowed the aircraft to become too low during a night simulated emergency (engine out) during an instructional flight. The aircraft contacted the tops of trees, became uncontrollable and crashed to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8320A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28RT-201 (PA-28RT-20)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R8118048
- Airframe hours
- 1,737
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert A. Goldstone Aviation
- Registered owner
- General Aviation Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 3, 1986 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- Teterboro, NJ
- Airport
- CDW · Essex, runway 22, 4,550 × 80 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,047 total · 10 in this make and model · 980 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.