- Date
- November 25, 1984, 19:45 local (Nov 26, 1984, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Nicholasville, KY
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4343FPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6715
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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 acft crashed into a sewage treatment plant during an emergency landing after fuel exhaustion while on a personal flt. The plt indicated that the flt was 4 hours 10 minutes long. The acft fuel capacity is listed as 38 gals usable. The acft is certified for four seats and had five persons aboard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4343F
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7715047
- Airframe hours
- 2,892
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Walter C. Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 4, 1984
- Departed
- ILM · Wilmington, NC
- Destination
- LOU · Louisville, KY
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LEX, 9 nm away
Other investigations on N4343F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.