- Date
- August 21, 1986, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Indian Head, MD
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9756QPiper 601P
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11255
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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 owner of the Aerostar 601P was flying his family and a friend from bedford, Massachusetts to Indian Head, Maryland. After monitoring the dca ATIS he elected to make an ILS to fort belvoir, Virginia, break off the missed approach and proceed VFR over to Maryland airport for a landing. He stated that he saw the runway from a right base position and turned onto final for runway 17. After flaring for landing the airplane stalled and impacted the ground to the left of the runway. The left gear collapsed as did the nose gear as the aircraft slid down the left side of the runway and came to rest about 1000 feet from the approach end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9756Q
- Reported as
- Piper 601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61P-0374-121
- Airframe hours
- 1,539
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-S1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Allen G. Burgess
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 1986 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- BED · Bedford, MA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 2W5 · Maryland Airport, runway 17, 3,000 × 50 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
- 51
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,485 total · 1,342 in this make and model · 3,310 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAA, 10 nm away
Other investigations on N9756Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.