N923RS — 1979 Piper PA-44-180

Aircraft record

Serial number

44-7995196

Manufacturer

Piper

Model

PA-44-180

Year

1979

Category

Fixed wing multi-engine

Engine

Lycoming O&vo-360 Ser

Registration

Deregistered

View the FAA registry record for N923RS →

Accident & incident history

1. ERA14FA168Mar 24, 2014Brunswick, GAFatal · 2 fatal

   An inflight failure of the airplane's only operating vacuum pump, which resulted in the loss of attitude information provided by vacuum-driven flight instruments. Also causal was the pilots' failure to maintain control of the airplane while operating in instrument flight rules (IFR) conditions, likely due to spatial disorientation, following the failure of the vacuum pump. Contributing to the accident was the operator's decision to dispatch the airplane with a known inoperative vacuum pump into IFR conditions.

Registration timeline

Ownership and registration events for this airframe (the 1979 Piper PA-44-180).

1. Mar 7, 2018deregistered — Atp Aircraft 2 Llc

Frequently asked

Has N923RS been in an accident?

Yes. N923RS appears in 1 NTSB accident record, the most recent in 2014.

What kind of aircraft is N923RS?

N923RS is a 1979 Piper PA-44-180 (fixed wing multi-engine), serial number 44-7995196.

Has N923RS been in a fatal accident?

An NTSB record for N923RS (ERA14FA168) is classified with a fatal highest injury level.