- Date
- December 5, 1983, 20:45 local (Dec 6, 1983, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Manassas, VA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3859TPiper PA-28R-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831205061279A
- Case key
- 6307
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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.
Analysis
The plt reported that during a night landing, the right main gear failed & the acft went off the right side of the rwy. An FAA investigator reported that the acft had touched down hard during the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3859T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R30182
- Airframe hours
- 1,613
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R.R. Willoughby
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 14, 1983 · 18 hours before
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- W10 · Manassas, runway 16L, 4,000 × 100 ft, macadam
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 571 total · 273 in this make and model · 473 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD, 9 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.
Other investigations on N3859T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.