ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 205484
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| Date: | Wednesday 27 December 1989 |
| Time: | 09:42 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34-200 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-SET |
| MSN: | 34-7350239 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Port Macquarie Airport (YPMQ), Port Macquarie, NSW -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | YSBK |
| YPMQ | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On approach to Port Macquarie, the aircraft's right engine failed completely and the pilot began feathering the propeller. He carried out a trouble check and attempted three times to unfeather the propeller without success. He broadcast that he was turning base for an asymmetric landing, re-selected the landing gear down, and lowered full flap in stages on final approach. After flaring, the aircraft floated a considerable distance. While still airborne, the pilot elected to go around. He applied full power to the left engine, selected gear up and retracted flap in stages as the aircraft started to climb. The aircraft then began to roll to the right, associated with a loss of directional control, and the right wingtip struck a stationary aircraft. It then cartwheeled across an adjacent car park before coming to rest a few metres short of a refuelling depot.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1989/aair/aair198902592/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/34036/aair198902592.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 May 1989 | VH-SET | 0 | Merimbula Airport (YMER), Merimbula, NSW | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 01-Feb-2018 20:34 | Pineapple | Added |
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