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While conducting flight training in a piper cherokee PA28 this reporter experienced a complete engine failure and successfully landed power-off at a nearby airport.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1201214 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201409 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.ARTCC |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Vectors Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Engine |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250 Flight Crew Total 1450 Flight Crew Type 1000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical |
Narrative:
I was on a training flight with a student. We had been flying for around 45 minutes. The student was under the hood. Minutes after reaching 3500 MSL approximately 2800 AGL our engine cut off (complete loss of power). I took the controls from the student and asked him to do the restart procedures while I found a place to land. I attempted to restart; but it did not. I found a runway and began to glide there. We made it to the runway safely with a soft landing. Nobody was hurt and the airplane was in great [albeit dead engine] condition. We were happy to have made it to the runway. The mechanic from my school confirmed that it was not our fault and we couldn't have prevented the engine failure.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: While conducting flight training in a Piper Cherokee PA28 this reporter experienced a complete engine failure and successfully landed power-off at a nearby airport.
Narrative: I was on a training flight with a student. We had been flying for around 45 minutes. The student was under the hood. Minutes after reaching 3500 MSL approximately 2800 AGL our engine cut off (complete loss of power). I took the controls from the student and asked him to do the restart procedures while I found a place to land. I attempted to restart; but it did not. I found a runway and began to glide there. We made it to the Runway safely with a soft landing. Nobody was hurt and the airplane was in great [albeit dead engine] condition. We were happy to have made it to the Runway. The mechanic from my school confirmed that it was not our fault and we couldn't have prevented the engine failure.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.