- Date
- March 21, 1992, 12:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Manville, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9348NPiper PA-28R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920321007029A
- Case key
- 11774
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain obstacle clearance.
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
While on final approach to runway 25 at kupper airport, Manville, new jersey, just before flying over the displaced threshold, the pilot heard a 'thump'. He elected to go-around and have the condition and the position of his landing gear verified. Once the gear was visually checked, he landed on runway 25 without further incident. The pilot taxied off the runway and parked the airplane in a hangar. Post landing examination of the airplane revealed substantail damage to the main gear and skin buckling on the top of both wings. Visual inspection of the runway revealed that there was a 36 inch high frozen snowbank located approximately 60 feet before the displaced threshold. Impact marks on the snowbank revealed that the airplane's main gear had traveled through the bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9348N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R35049
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- 69 Arrow Inc
- Registered owner
- 69 Arrow Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- 47N · Kupper, runway 25, 3,400 × 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,470 total · 620 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 18 °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.