Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain crash, Jan 18, 2023, Mid...
Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain accident on January 18, 2023 near Middlefield-Geauga County, Ohio, United States with no fatalities. Cause: A runway...
- Date: January 18, 2023
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain
- Location: Middlefield-Geauga County, Ohio, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: A runway overrun during a precautionary landing after a total loss of right engine power from detonation and oil starvation. Contributing: failure to lower the flaps and excessive airspeed at touchdown (NTSB).
A Piper Navajo lost right engine power in instrument conditions and diverted to Geauga County, where it landed with flaps retracted at 120 knots and overran the 3,500 foot runway. The pilot and five passengers survived. The NTSB cited the failure to lower the flaps and the excess touchdown speed.