ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225584
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| Date: | Tuesday 28 May 2019 |
| Time: | 23:55 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28R-180 Cherokee Arrow |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N3933T |
| MSN: | 28R-30273 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3041 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-B1A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near LaDue Reservoir, Geauga County, OH -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cincinnati Municipal Airport, OH (LUK/KLUK) |
| Middlefield, OH (7GB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On May 28, 2019, at 2355 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28R-180, N3933T, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Auburn Township, Ohio. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight.
The pilot departed Cincinnati Lunken Airport (LUK), Cincinnati, Ohio, about 2209, and was destined for Geauga County Airport (7G8), Middlefield, Ohio. The pilot was not communicating with air traffic control and there were no recorded communications with the airplane during the flight. A review of radar data revealed that the airplane was flying directly toward 7G8 on a northeasterly heading. At 2354:41, when the airplane was about 9.6 nautical miles from the airport at an altitude of 2,525 ft mean sea level (msl) and a groundspeed of 136 knots (kts), it made a left turn to the north-northwest and proceeded toward the LaDue Reservoir. As the airplane reached the southeast bank of the reservoir at 2355:21, it was at an altitude of 2,300 ft msl and a groundspeed of 129 kts. The airplane then entered a steep, descending right turn before the data ended at 2355:31. At that time, the airplane's heading was 104° at an altitude of 1,300 ft msl and a groundspeed of 169 kts.
According to the pilot's girlfriend, she and her daughter had been camping with the pilot in Kentucky during the days before the accident. The girlfriend said that she drove home (near 7G8) and the pilot flew her daughter to LUK so that she could then take a commercial flight from the major airport in Cincinnati. The girlfriend stated that the pilot landed at LUK about 1800, and his departure to 7G8 was delayed due to weather. The pilot texted her at 2209 and said that he was on his way with an estimated time of arrival of 2330. About 16 minutes after the pilot departed, he sent her a picture of the instrument panel, which was illuminated. The airplane was level at 5,400 ft msl, on a heading of 055°, and all the electronic engine gauges (oil temperature, oil pressure, and fuel pressure) were within the normal range. The manifold pressure was 23 inches and the tachometer indicated 2,330 rpm. The electronic fuel gauges indicated that the right tank was slightly below full and the left tank was full. At 2226, the pilot sent his girlfriend a text asking about the weather. She stated, "Lots of storms that way…Still raining hard and thundering here." She sent additional texts about the weather and asked him how the flight was going, but the pilot did not respond.
A witness stated that he was out walking his dogs around midnight when he heard an aircraft flying from south to north toward the reservoir. Initially, he was not sure if it was an airplane or a helicopter because the engine did not sound typical for either aircraft. The witness then concluded it was an airplane that sounded as if the engine was "sputtering" and that it "definitely had an erratic engine sound." The witness said he raised his "spotlight" to the sky and noted an "extremely low cloud deck." He then entered his home and heard "a very loud thud/boom." The witness said his wife also heard the "boom" but they both thought it was thunder since storms had just passed through the area. It was not until the next day that the witness realized the airplane had crashed.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
https://fox8.com/2019/05/29/search-crews-looking-for-possible-downed-plane-in-ladue-reservoir/
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-geauga/authorities-searching-for-small-plane-near-the-ladue-reservoir-in-geauga-county
https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/05/29/dead-after-private-plan-crashes-geauga-county/
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/body-of-missing-pilot-and-plane-registered-in-indiana-found-in-wooded-area-outside-of-cleveland
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https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=3933T
https://uk.flightaware.com/photos/view/4922538-40579f7c6e800d4c1027b910651ad4b15e2f861a (photo)
https://planefinder.net/flight/N3933T/time/2019-05-28T19:45:00.000Z/speed/1
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n3933t#20af2c2a
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NTSB investigating May 28 crash of a Piper PA-28R-180 aircraft in Auburn Township, OH
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) 29 mai 2019
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-May-2019 13:05 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 29-May-2019 13:42 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 14:16 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Total fatalities, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 14:18 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Aircraft type, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 14:29 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 29-May-2019 14:29 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 14:38 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 14:46 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 29-May-2019 15:40 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Aircraft type, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 19:17 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Embed code] |
| 29-May-2019 20:40 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Date, Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2019 20:51 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Photo] |
| 29-May-2019 21:27 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Photo] |
| 02-Sep-2020 13:53 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 02-Sep-2020 14:04 | harro | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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