- Date
- May 17, 1986, 19:17 local (23:17 UTC)
- Place
- Washington, DC
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6828PCessna 340A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11245
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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 was reportedly too high to land on the rwy initially assigned by ATC. ATC directed the acft to fly over the arpt and enter downwind traffic for another rwy. The plt was later asked by ATC if he could make a short apch and he replied affirmative. The acft made a hard ldg about 300 ft past the rwy numbers. Both main ldg gear tires deflated, and the acft sustained substantial damage to the engine nacelles and inboard wing areas. The nose gear area of the acft appeared undamaged. The pilot later reported that he had flared the acft at about 5 to 7 ft abv the rwy and 100 ft past the threshold when the acft '..suddenly was sucked to (the) ground.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6828P
- Reported as
- Cessna 340A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A1226
- Airframe hours
- 391
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bijay P. Ghooray
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 20, 1985 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- IAG · Niagra Falls, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DCA · Washington National, runway 15, 5,189 × 200 ft, asphalt
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
- 45
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,485 total · 250 in this make and model · 1,485 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DCA