- Date
- November 18, 1982, 00:15 local (06:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sheboygan, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6078UPiper 601P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 18, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821118070179A
- Case key
- 72606
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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
The plt noticed haze in lights at destination but had excellent ground contact throughout the approach. At threshold he entered dense ground fog & lost all visual contact. The acft crashed during the go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6078U
- Reported as
- Piper 601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61P-8063356
- Airframe hours
- 543
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-S1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Newtron Inc.
- Registered owner
- Newtron Equipment Company
- Departed
- GCK · Garden City
- Destination
- 3R3 · Austin, TX
- Airport
- SBM · Sheboygan County, runway 21, 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,203 total · 2,240 in this make and model · 3,006 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 200° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRB, 38 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.