- Date
- December 9, 1989, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Morgantown, WV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N7485LPiper PA-31
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891209049559A
- Case key
- 11573
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive taxi speed. Ice on the ramp and the location of the fence were related factors.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - icyCause
Taxispeed - excessiveCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fence postFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7485L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7300907
- Airframe hours
- 12,592
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-82C, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Roche Biomedical Laboratory
- Registered owner
- Roche Biomedical Lab. Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 6, 1989 · 623 hours before
- Departed
- BUY · Burlington, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MRG · Hart Field, runway 18, 5,199 × 150 ft, asphalt
N7485LRegistration cancelled Dec 22, 2014 · Piper PA-31-310Airframe modelPiper PA-31-310Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 series
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,600 total · 2,100 in this make and model · 5,375 as pilot in command · 225 in the last 90 days · 78 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.