- Date
- September 29, 2004, 18:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Charlotte, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41985Piper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Charlotte FSDO-33
- FAA report
- 20040929025729A
- Case key
- 60252
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgment of speed and distance resulting in an overrun and collision with trees.
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 he entered left traffic for runway 35 at Wellington Air Park. He turned on final approach and realized that he was high. He lowered the nose of the airplane and began his landing flare over the runway at 100 mph. The airplane touched down long and fast, went off the departure over run to the right and collided with trees. Examination of the runway revealed light tire marks about 600 feet from the departure end of runway 35 followed by heavy skid marks about 500 feet from the departure end of the runway. The runway is 2,835 feet in length.
Factual narrative
On September 29, 2004, at 1815 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28-180, registered to Wilgrove Aviation LLC, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, over run the runway at Wilgrove Air Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, on landing and collided with trees. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane received substantial damage.. The private pilot reported no injuries. The flight originated from Georgetown, South Carolina, on September 29, 2004 at 1645.
The pilot stated he entered left traffic for runway 35 at Wellington Air Park. He turned on final approach and realized that he was high. He lowered the nose of the airplane and began his landing flare over the runway at 100 mph. The airplane touched down long and fast, went off the departure over run to the right and collided with trees. Examination of the runway revealed light tire marks about 600 feet from the departure end of runway 35 followed by heavy skid marks about 500 feet from the departure end of the runway. The runway is 2,835 feet in length.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41985
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7405157
- Airframe hours
- 4,514
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wilgrove Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2004 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- GGE · Georgtown, SC
- Destination
- 8A6 · Charlotte, NC
- Airport
- SA6 · Wilgrove Air Park, runway 35, 2,700 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- June 12, 2004
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 162 total · 162 in this make and model · 82 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- CLT, 13 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.