- Date
- March 16, 1992, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Doylestown, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N872RJPiper PA-46-350P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920316006479A
- Case key
- 11772
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during touchdown, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. A factor related to the accident was the gusty crosswind condition.
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
During touchdown on runway 23 at Doylestown airport, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, the airplane encountered a turbulent gust of wind and the right wing rose abruptly. The pilot stated that even though he input full aileron and almost full rudder, the airplane veered off the left of the runway and impacted a wind sock pole and wind tee. There was no reported airframe or engine malfunction prior to hitting the wind sock pole. The pilot was not injured, but the airplane was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N872RJ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-350P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4622028
- Airframe hours
- 464
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond J. Cawley
- Registered owner
- Gull Leasing Incorporated
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 13, 1992 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- CHS · Charleston, SC
- Flight plan
- VFR/IFR
- Airport
- N88 · Doylestown Airport, runway 23, 3,004 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,149 total · 408 in this make and model · 971 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 16 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABE, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.