- Date
- August 22, 1992, 14:13 local (22:13 UTC)
- Place
- Togiak, AK
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8402SPiper PA-32
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920822032699A
- Case key
- 5787
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper preflight planning/decision, and his delay in aborting the takeoff. Contributing factors were the berm and the standing water on the runway.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot stated that after getting airborne the airplane would not climb any higher than about 2 feet above the ground without the stall warning horn sounding. About 20 feet past the end of the runway the airplane's right main landing gear hit and was sheared off by a 3 foot high tundra berm. The pilot then reduced power and landed on the paralleling beach, during which the nose landing gear collapsed. The pilot also said that the airplane was delayed in getting airborne by the standing water and mud puddles on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8402S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-8106075
- Airframe hours
- 13,610
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Peninsula Airways, Inc., doing business as Penair
- Registered owner
- Peninsula Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 5, 1992 · 77 hours before
- Departed
- TFI
- Destination
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- TFI · Togiak Fisheries, runway 12, 1,200 × 30 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 6,557 total · 3,079 in this make and model · 6,301 as pilot in command · 412 in the last 90 days · 138 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 20 knots, gusting 28
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8402S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.