Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain crash, Nov 21, 2022 (8 killed)
Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain accident on November 21, 2022 near Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera, Antioquia, Colombia with 8 fatalities. Cause: Loss...
- Date: November 21, 2022
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain
- Location: Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera, Antioquia, Colombia
- Fatalities: 8
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Loss of control after left engine power loss, with a propeller feathering failure caused by excess grease in the blade coupling that prevented feathering, reducing minimum control speed and increasing drag.
An Aeropaca Piper Navajo Chieftain chartered to carry six people lost power in the left engine soon after takeoff from Medellín Olaya Herrera, could not feather the propeller and crashed on houses in the Belén Rosales district, burning. All eight aboard died. Investigators traced the propeller failure to excess grease in the blade coupling.