FTW84LA280 · Piper PA-18-150
Centerline Aviation Piper PA-18-150 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) while maneuvering
From Addison Airport (ADS) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW84LA280
- 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-18-150
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-18
- 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
- N82213
- Operator
- Centerline Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Addison Airport (ADS), Addison, 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
- Partial 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Brakes(normal), excessive
- Pilot in command › Carburetor heat, not used
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
PLT HAD POWER AT IDLE DURING DESCENT FROM 900 FT AGL TO 200 FT AGL. DURING A LOW PASS OVER A FIELD, PLT ADVANCED THROTTLE, ENGINE SPUTTERED AND DID NOT ACCELERATE. HEAVY BRAKING WAS USED DURING FORCED LANDING ROLL AND ACFT NOSED OVER. PLT DID NOT RECALL USING CARB HEAT DURING DESCENT AND LOW PASS AT IDLE PWR. ENGINE WAS SUCCESSFULLY RUN AT LOW AND HIGH PWR SETTINGS AFTER THE ACCIDENT. PLT MADE LOW PASS TO VIEW REAL ESTATE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW84LA280
- Event ID
- 20001214X39959
- Case number
- FTW84LA280
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1984-06-19.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 45cab84170fbc57679d1361f518faca050fe67275d9e8a7e2a5550c8a6c98052; retrieved 2026-09-23T20:16:58.118Z.