FTW84FA156 · Piper PA-23-250
Piper PA-23-250 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) during initial climb
From Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (FTW) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW84FA156
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA-23-250
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N777RG
- Operator
- Jacquelin Laurent
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (FTW), FT. WORTH, TXTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Emergency procedure, not understood
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Emergency procedure, not used
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Fuel tank selector position, improper
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Judgment, poor
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Procedures/directives, improper
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Propeller feathering, not performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT MADE A FORCED LANDING IN AN OPEN FIELD NEAR THE ARPT WHEN THE RIGHT ENGINE STOPPED AT ABOUT 50-100 FT AGL DURING A TOUCH AND GO LANDING. THE CFI ABOARD SAID HE HAD POSITIONED THE FUEL TANK SELECTOR TO THE INBOARD TANKS PRIOR TO THE LAST APPROACH OR THE ONE BEFORE AND DID NOT TOUCH THEM AGAIN. POST ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SHOWED THE LEFT SELECTOR WAS ON THE INBOARD TANK. THE RIGHT SELECTOR WAS POSITIONED TO OFF AND THE CROSSFEED CONTROL WAS OFF. DURING THEEMERGENCY THE LANDING GEAR WAS NOT RETRACTED A RIGHT ENGINE RESTART WAS NOT ATTEMPTED. THE RIGHT ENGINE WAS NOT FEATHERED AND A TURN OF 145 DEGREES WAS MADE INTO THE 'DEAD' ENGINE. A RWY ALIGNED WITH THE TAKEOFF RWY WAS LESS THAN 3 MILES AHEAD. THE ACFT LANDED GEAR DOWN AND FLAPS UP. BOTH MAIN GEAR SEPARATED ON LANDING. WHEN THE FUEL SYSTEM, WAS PROPERLY POSITIONED AFTER THE ACCIDENT AND THE ACFT PUT ON A FLATBED BOTH ENGINES OPERATED SATISFACTORILY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW84FA156
- Event ID
- 20001214X39021
- Case number
- FTW84FA156
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: f585f7fa8dac40055ecb6dc40d328ae70f5913664932e143a30073e04a045063; retrieved 2026-09-23T20:46:59.371Z.