Harteveld Drew J CHINOOK PLUS 2 accident near Pittstown, NJ
On May 16, 2025, a Harteveld Drew J CHINOOK PLUS 2 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Pittstown, NJ. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 16, 2025
- Place
- Pittstown, NJ
- Aircraft
- Harteveld Drew J CHINOOK PLUS 2 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 40.596°N, 75.015°W
- NTSB ID
- 20250516200165
NTSB summary
On May 16, 2025, about 1642 eastern daylight time, an experimental, amateur-built Chinook Plus 2, N3300K, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Pittstown, NJ. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A witness at the airport was a friend of the accident pilot and was standing near his hangar at the time of the accident takeoff. He stated that the pilot had been training in a Piper J3, but did not have any flight experience in the make and model accident airplane. He further stated that the takeoff was the pilot’s first flight in the airplane. Just prior to the takeoff, the pilot performed either a takeoff attempt or a high-speed taxi on runway 26. During that run, the pilot lost control of the airplane and it ground looped on grass off the left side of the runway, but did not sustain damage. The pilot then taxied back to the beginning of runway 26 and performed the accident takeoff. During the takeoff, the airplane traveled on the ground about halfway down the 2,550-ft-long asphalt runway, which was much more than is required for liftoff. The airplane drifted left again, struck and severed a runway light with its left wing strut. The pilot continued the takeoff, climbed, and performed two orbits around the airport, before descending vertically to the accident site. The wreckage came to inverted in a wooded area about 1/2-mile north of the airport, oriented on a magnetic heading of 135°. A postcrash fire had consumed a majority of the wreckage. All four corners of the
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
