- Date
- December 26, 1984, 17:41 local (Dec 27, 1984, 00:41 UTC)
- Place
- Boise, ID
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- CGTQEPiper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40100
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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
Fuel tank selector position - inadvertent useFactor
Fluid,fuel - starvation
Supervision - improperCause
Forced landing
Gear collapsed
Terrain condition - rough/unevenFactor
Analysis
On final approach, the pilot's wife, also a rated pilot, was reviewing the landing check list. At item 'heaters off' she inadvertently turned fuel selectors to off. Both engines lost pwr and pilot executed a forced landing short of runway in rough terrain, collapsing the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CGTQE
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 348070340
- Airframe hours
- 1,130
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stinson Holdings, Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 13, 1984
- Departed
- GTF · Great Falls, MT
- Destination
- BOI · Boise, ID
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BOI · Boise Air Terminal, runway 28R, 7,400 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,145 total · 28 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BOI, 2 nm away