- Date
- May 13, 1988, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Millbrook, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2819JPiper PA-28RT-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880513016739A
- Case key
- 36146
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 aircraft departed runway 17 at sky acres airport and after reachng an altitude of about 100 feet, witnesses observed the engine cowling extended vertically, partially attached. The pilot said he was unable to return to the departure airport, and the aircraft collided with trees in a field 1/2 mile away with the landing gear still extended. A witness saw the pilot placing the cowling on the aircraft earlier in the day.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2819J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28RT-201 (PA-28RT-20)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7918158
- Airframe hours
- 970
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kjz Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 44N · Millbrook, NY
- Destination
- HPN · White Plains, NY
- Airport
- 44N · Sky Acres, runway 17, 3,885 × 20 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 840 in this make and model · 3,925 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.