# NTSB Accident ERA19LA012
> **Piper PA34** · 2018-10-13 · Westhampton Beach, NY, USA · FATL
## Event
- **NTSB number:** ERA19LA012
- **Event ID:** 20181013X75622
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2018-10-13
- **Location:** Westhampton Beach, NY, USA
- **Coordinates:** 40.470001, -72.36
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** FATL
- **Fatal:** 3
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 3
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Piper
- **Model:** PA34
- **Registration:** N593MS
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 2
- **Damage:** DEST
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

The instructor's decision to conduct and continue a visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions with a known flight instrument anomaly, which resulted in spatial disorientation, causing a loss of airplane control and subsequent in-flight breakup. Contributing to the accident were the instructor's lack of recent instrument flight experience and degraded airplane control and decision-making due to hypoxia.

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