Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain crash, Apr 9, 2014, Ston...
Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain accident on April 9, 2014 near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom with no fatalities. Cause: AAIB: the report...
- Date: April 9, 2014
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain
- Location: Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: AAIB: the report could not establish why pistons in both engines suffered virtually identical heat damage, and considered a common mode failure likely. Possible contributors included wrong fuel, an overlean mixture, or earlier damage from incorrect oil used in cold temperatures.
On 9 April 2014 a Navajo Chieftain on a ferry flight from Wick, Scotland to Le Touquet, France lost power in both engines about 25 minutes after takeoff. The pilot made a forced landing in a ploughed field near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and no one was killed. The AAIB found severe heat damage to one piston in each engine and considered a common mode failure likely, but could not establish the exact cause; the aircraft had earlier been abandoned in Greenland after low oil pressure on both engines.