- Date
- July 20, 1992, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marston Mills, MA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8358PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920720026059A
- Case key
- 11825
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight preparation. Contributing was the pilot's failure to use all available runway and overconfidence in his own abilities.
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
This was the pilot's first time attempting a takeoff from this airport, having landed there earlier in the day. Witnesses reported the pilot did not use all the available runway. Several local pilots said they advised the pilot against using the runway, but he felt otherwise, explaining that he had extensive flight experience. The pilot stated that during takeoff, when he lifted off the airplane 'shuddered', so he aborted the takeoff. The airplane overran the runway and struck an occupied van. The van occupants were not injured. The pilot reported that he did not consider the additional takeoff distance needed when an unpaved surface is used. Also, he thought the runway was about 400 feet longer than actual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8358P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-3614
- Airframe hours
- 2,926
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-C1B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eugene E. Cirillo
- Registered owner
- Eugene E. Cirillo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1992 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- 2B1
- Destination
- ACK · Nantucket, MA
- Airport
- 2B1 · Cape Cod Airport, runway 23, 2,040 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,600 total · 166 in this make and model · 3,217 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days · 1.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HYA, 10 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.