- Date
- August 12, 1995, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, TN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N623DSPiper PA-46
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950812028559A
- Case key
- 3612
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated that after touchdown on runway 03, he applied brakes to stop the aircraft. Immediately after the brake application, the aircraft began a hard left turn. He applied full right rudder, aileron, and right brake, but was unable to arrest the turn. He then applied full power to the engine in an attempt to arrest the turn, but with no success. The airplane veered off the left side of the runway, down a slight incline, across a shallow ditch, and came to rest in a grassy area just west of the parallel taxiway. Inspection of the aircraft revealed that both the right and left tires were fully inflated, and the left and right brakes rotated freely.
Factual narrative
On August 12, 1995, at 1130 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-46, N623DS, was substantially damaged following a collision with terrain during the landing roll at the Mark Anton Airport in Dayton, Tennessee. The personal flight was being operated under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot and one passenger were not injured, but the second passenger received minor injuries. The flight departed Chattanooga, Tennessee, at 1100 hours.
The pilot stated that after touchdown on runway 03, he applied brakes to stop the aircraft. Immediately after the brake application, the aircraft began a hard left turn. He applied full right rudder, aileron, and right brake, but was unable to arrest the turn. He then applied full power to the engine in an attempt to arrest the turn, but with no success. The airplane veered off the left side of the runway, down a slight incline, across a shallow ditch, and came to rest in a grassy area just west of the parallel taxiway.
Inspection of the aircraft revealed that both the right and left tires were fully inflated, and the left and right brakes rotated freely.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N623DS
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4608066
- Airframe hours
- 509
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-BE1B, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ernest Igou
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 11, 1995 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- CHA · Chattanooga, TN
- Destination
- 2A0 · TN
- Airport
- 2A0 · Mark Anton, runway 3, 4,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,473 total · 506 in this make and model · 5,108 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHA, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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