- Date
- August 24, 1985, 12:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Portland, TN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7369YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850824067679A
- Case key
- 6861
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.
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
In-flight planning/decision - inadequateCause
Landed at wrong airport - attemptedFactor
Go-around - attemptedFactor
Clearance - not maintainedCause
Analysis
The plt made a visual aprch to the wrong airport & attempted to go-around. During the go-around the acft coll ided with trees on the departure end of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7369Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-420
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harold N. Brooks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 27, 1985 · 7 hours before
- Destination
- AHN · Athens, GA
- Airport
- IM5 · Portland Muni, runway 19, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
N7369YRegistration cancelled Oct 24, 2013 · Piper PA-30Airframe modelPiper PA-30Engine modelLycoming IO-320 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 12,000 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 32 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.