- Date
- August 25, 1982, 20:15 local (Aug 26, 1982, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Campbellsville, KY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6850JPiper PA-34
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820825042999A
- Case key
- 70119
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Main gear collapsed
Light condition - duskFactor
Visual lookout - inattentiveCause
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Landing gear,main gear - failure,total
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
While taxiing to a hangar the left wheel went off the taxiway causing the left gear to collapse.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6850J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7670293
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-E, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Wallace Martin
- Registered owner
- Central Kentucky Glass
- Departed
- Lexington, KY
- Destination
- Campbellsville, KY
- Airport
- AAS · Taylor County
N6850JRegistered now · Piper PA-34-200TAirframe modelPiper PA-34-200TEngine modelContinental TSIO-360 series
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 300 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.