- Date
- October 23, 1987, 13:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Churchton, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2816MPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11393
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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 plt rprtd that after searching unsuccessfully for a wind sock & getting no reply on UNICOM freq, he made an apch to rwy 16. Later, he saw the wind sock about half way down the rwy near a building. Drg the apch, he noticed he was high & put the acft in a slip to lose alt. Subsequently, he realized he would be unable to land on the remaining rwy & began a go-around. However, about 150 to 200 ft beyond the dep end of the rwy, the left wing hit a tree, then the acft yawed left & crashed in an upright attitude. The plt rprtd the wind was from 240 deg at 10 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2816M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-7840056
- Airframe hours
- 2,793
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lloyd Jones
- Registered owner
- J & J Partnership
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 6, 1987
- Departed
- 1N9 · Queen City, PA
- Airport
- OW2 · Deep Creek, runway 16, 2,100 × 50 ft, gravel
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 580 total · 25 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Other investigations on N2816M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.