- Date
- July 30, 1989, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Williamsburg, VA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4022RPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890730026759A
- Case key
- 11519
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control by improperly flaring the airplane during the landing approach.
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 reported that while on short final at an airspeed of 80 mph with flaps extended, the acft experienced a sudden loss of alt. The acft descended rapidly and contacted the rwy from an alt of aprx 10 ft AGL. The landing was being made on rwy 13 and the plt reported local winds from 180 degs at 5 KTS gusting to 10 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4022R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-40299
- Airframe hours
- 1,901
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Southern Delaware Aviation,Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 13, 1989 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- SBY · Salisbury, MD
- Airport
- JGG · Williamsburg, runway 13, 3,215 × 60 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 677 total · 125 in this make and model · 533 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.