ERA17WA025 · Piper PA23 250
Piper PA23 250 · Incident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU) to Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)
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Event
- NTSB case
- ERA17WA025
- 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
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Not recorded
Piper PA23 250
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA23
- 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
- OB-2039
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU), TrujilloTo Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), Callao
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- En route
- Defining eventThe 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
- Loss of engine power (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 16, 2016, at 1937 universal time coordinated, a Piper PA-23-250 twin-engine airplane, Peruvian registration OB-2039, was not damaged during a precautionary landing to the Jaime Montreuil M. Airport (CHM), Chimbote, Peru. According to Peruvian officials, the left engine experienced a loss of manifold pressure and an increase in oil temperature while en route from the Captain Carlos Martinez De Pinillos/Trujillo International Airport (TRU), Trujillo, Peru, to the Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), Callao, Peru. The pilot shut down the left engine in flight, declared an emergency, and landed without further incident at CHM. The pilot and the passenger were not injured.The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Peruvian Government. Any further information pertaining to the accident can be obtained from:
Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación – CIAA Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones Jirón Zorritos 1203 – Piso 12 D Lima - 1 Peru
Tel.: (511) 615-7488 Fax: (511) 615-7800
This report is for informational purposes and only information released by the Peruvian Government.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA17WA025
- Event ID
- 20161020X34454
- Case number
- ERA17WA025
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: damage. 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: eb3c49124db7074e2b4b442e5cc4da73544766bdbb59e7801b982ded958856ab; retrieved 2026-09-16T04:44:55.748Z.