- Date
- September 14, 2011, 13:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Pinckneyville, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9513CPiper PA-28-181
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 81811
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to conduct a go-around due to his excessive airspeed while on approach to land, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot departed on a cross-country flight and diverted to an alternate airport due to deteriorating weather conditions. The pilot reported that his airspeed on approach was too fast for the conditions, but he continued with the landing on the wet, short, turf runway. The airplane departed the runway and impacted a barbed wire fence, where it sustained substantial damage to its wings. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane prior to the accident flight.
Factual narrative
The pilot departed on a cross country flight and diverted due to deteriorating weather conditions. He performed a landing at the diversion airport on a wet short turf runway. The pilot reported that his airspeed on approach was too fast for the wet conditions. The airplane departed the runway and impacted a barbed wire fence where it sustained substantial damage to its wings. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane in reference to the accident flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9513C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7890418
- Airframe hours
- 2,978
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360 SER, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Agri Business Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Agri Business Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 2011
- Departed
- PAH · Paducah, KY
- Destination
- SAR · Sparta, IL
- Airport
- 24LL · Lambert Airport, runway 20, 1,800 × 70 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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 21, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,800 total · 3,750 in this make and model · 9,550 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- SAR
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 29, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 950 KB in all.