Piper PA-23 N1236P

Summary

On 7 May 1983 at about 22:33 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N1236P, operated by Henry J. Zoranski, was involved in an accident near Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

7 May 1983 at 22:33

Classification

Accident

Location

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Nearest airport

Montgomery County Airpark (GAI)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Piper PA-23

Registration

N1236P

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Henry J. Zoranski

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Westminster → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DCA83AA025

3 people died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

THE OWNER/PLT WAS ON A FLT, ACCOMPANIED BY TWO NEPHEWS, AGES 19 & 8 YRS OLD. AN ASSOCIATE OF THE OWNER/PLT REPORTED THAT THE 19 YR OLD NEPHEW, WHO OCCUPIED THE RIGHT FRONT SEAT, WAS A SINGLE ENG PLT, BUT HAD NO MULTI-ENG INSTRUCTION. HOWEVER, NO FAA RECORDS WERE FOUND TO VERIFY THAT THE NEPHEW WAS A PLT. ABOUT 5 MI NORTH OF THE DESTINATION (MONTGOMERY CO ARPT), 2 GROUND WITNESSES, WHO WERE BOTH PLTS, SAW A PIPER APACHE IN LEVEL FLT AT ABOUT 1000 FT AGL WITH THE RIGHT PROP FEATHERED. AFTER THEY TOOK OFF IN THEIR ACFT, THEY TUNED IN THE MONTGOMERY CO ADVISORY FREQ TO DETERMINE IF THERE WERE ANY TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE APACHE. THEY HEARD THE PLT OF AN APACHE REPORT ON DOWNWIND, BUT HEARD NO MENTION OF AN ENG PROBLEM OR AN EMERGENCY. WITNESSES ON THE ARPT & UNDER THE BASE LEG FOR RWY 14 OBSERVED THE APACHE TURN TO FINAL APCH WITH THE RIGHT PROP FEATHERED. THE ACFT THEN ROLLED INTO A RIGHT DESCENDING NOSE DOWN ATTITUDE & CRASHED IN A STEEPDESCENT. NO PREIMPACT PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WAS FND. DRG MED EXAM ON 8/12/82, THE PLT RPRTD 1200 HRS TOTAL TIME.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.