- Date
- June 11, 1986, 06:30 local (10:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Holly, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6264YPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860611037579A
- Case key
- 11251
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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 nose gear was sheared off when the acft contacted a ditch during an overrun landing. Upon arriving at the pvt airstrip the plt circled the rwy and decided it was suitable for landing. Touchdown was made 400 ft down the rwy and normal deceleration was obtained through the use of brakes and aerodynamic braking. Shortly thereafter, the acft deceleration slowed and ground speed increased. The plt verified throttles at idle and acft configuration. The acft traveled off the end of the rwy, contacted a post and a ditch, continued over a two lane hwy and came to rest in a second ditch. Plt was originally informed the airstrip was 3000 ft long when in actuality it is 2250 ft long. The grass was also wet from morning dew. An aborted landing was not performed because of pwr lines at the end of the rwy. A 5 kt tailwind was present.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6264Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-3506
- Airframe hours
- 5,616
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Bay Land Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bay Land Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 30, 1986
- Departed
- SBY · Salisbury, MD
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Alliance Fertilizer, runway 5, 2,250 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,480 total · 414 in this make and model · 5,119 as pilot in command · 111 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 225° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.