- Date
- February 12, 1983, 23:20 local (Feb 13, 1983, 05:20 UTC)
- Place
- Three Oaks, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6487WPiper PA28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830212006059A
- Case key
- 12089
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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 acft collided with a wire during the landing approach and landed hard enough to collapse the nose gear. According to the owner the flt was not authorized and the person at the controls held no pilot certificate. The pilot made the following statement, 'I was simply too low and the right wheel caught the electric wire which forced the plane nose over, at which time all I could do was pull the rudder all the way back to keep from landing on the nose. As it happened I landed in an upright position but I hit too hard and broke off the nose wheel.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6487W
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-20562
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Daryl D. Cummings
- Registered owner
- Peter Babovac
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 1982 · 1 hours before
- Airport
- 39C · Oselka, runway 26, 2,770 × 60 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
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.