Piper PA 34-200 N15294
11 October 2016 · East Hartford, Connecticut, United States · Fatal
Summary
On 11 October 2016 at about 19:30 local time, a Piper PA 34-200 registered N15294, operated by American Flight Academy, was involved in an accident near East Hartford, Connecticut, United States. 2 people were on board and one died, one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 19:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- Nearest airport
- Hartford-Brainard (HFD)
- Coordinates
- 41.7367, -72.6494
- Aircraft
- Piper PA 34-200
- Registration
- N15294
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1972
- Engines
- 2
- Operator
- American Flight Academy
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- East Hartford → East Hartford
- Aircraft damage
- Destroyed
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA17FA011
People
1 person died.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Probable cause
The NTSB did not determine the probable cause of this event and does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket. The investigation of this event is being conducted under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
On October 11, 2016, about 1530 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-34-200 twin-engine airplane, N15294, was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Hartford-Brainard Airport (HFD), Hartford, Connecticut. The flight instructor was seriously injured, and the private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to International Aviation, LLC, and operated by American Flight Academy as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the airport at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed for the local flight that departed HFD about an hour earlier. The investigation of this event is being conducted under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The NTSB provided requested technical assistance to the FBI, and any material generated by the NTSB is under the control of the FBI. The NTSB does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec 2016 | Piper PA 34 | Denton, Texas, United States | U S Aviation Group LLC | No injuries | - |
| 13 Aug 2016 | Piper PA 34 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States | ELI Air Center Inc. | No injuries | - |
| 15 Oct 2016 | Piper PA 34 | Springfield, Ohio, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 3 Aug 2016 | Piper PA 34-200T | Flagstaff, Arizona, United States | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 7 Dec 2016 | Piper PA-34-200T | Alsace, France | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 25 Nov 2017 | Piper PA 34-220T | Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, United States | - | Serious injuries | - |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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