Accident · 1999-08-31

NTSB case NYC99FA216 · Piper PA-34-200 · Part 91

What the record says

Event date: 1999-08-31
Event type: Accident
Highest injury level: Fatal injury
Aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (N98FM)
Operating rule: Part 91
Operator: operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The flight instructor's inadequate remedial action, and the pilot-under-instruction's panic and subsequent interference with the flight controls.

Source: NTSB case NYC99FA216

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.

Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.

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