# Accident 19800225004949A: Piper PA32300, Hokes Bluff, AL, February 25, 1980

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 25, 1980, 00:15 local time
- Place: Hokes Bluff, AL
- Airport: Mullins
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.9897° N, 85.8629° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Hokes Bluff, AL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.9897&lon=-85.8629&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3515M, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N3515M-2012-09-18) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32RT-300 (registry code 7103215, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32rt-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32300
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 0 in this make and model, 280 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB MIA80DKJ23](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA80DKJ23) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800225004949A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NIGHT LANDING, DOWNWIND, UNABLE TO STOP. VEERED AIRPLANE INTO ADJACENT FIELD TO AVOID OVERSHOOTING RUNWAY.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB MIA80DKJ23](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA80DKJ23), Feb 25, 1980: Piper PA-32 (N3515M), Hokes Bluff, AL, substantial damage

## Other reports on N3515M (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19830408011889A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19830408011889A), Apr 8, 1983: Piper PA32RT300 (N3515M), Wellsville, NY, Destroyed, 5 fatal. VFR pilot with no weather briefing over gross and inop vacuum pump departed in IMC and struck a fog obscured hill.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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