- Date
- February 20, 2000, 23:00 local (Feb 21, 2000, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Saginaw, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2899DPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000220037099A
- Case key
- 48677
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Probable cause
the pilots failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. Factors were the icy runway and the snowbank.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
Upon landing, the aircraft exited the left side of the runway and impacted a snowbank. The runway was contaminated with patchy ice. No preexisting anomalies were found with respect to the aircraft or it's systems.
Factual narrative
On February 20, 2000, at 2300 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-32-300, N2899D, piloted by a private pilot, sustained substantial damage when it impacted a snowbank during landing on runway 27 (5,000 feet by 100 feet, ice covered asphalt) at the Saginaw County Airport, Saginaw, Michigan. The 14 CFR Part 91 flight was not on a flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot reported no injuries to himself or his two passengers. The flight originated at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport, Akron, Ohio at 2130.
Upon landing, the aircraft exited the left side of the runway and impacted a snowbank. According to the Federal Aviation Administration Inspector, there was patchy ice covering the runway surface. A postaccident examination of the aircraft revealed no preexisting anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2899D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-7940192
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Asim Yunus
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CAK · Akron, OH
- Destination
- 3SG
- Airport
- 3SG · Saginaw County Airport, runway 27, 5,000 × 100 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 196 total · 12 in this make and model · 135 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBS, 11 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.