- Date
- February 13, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Harrisville, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8304RPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830213014599A
- Case key
- 12094
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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 reported that during a touch-and-go landing on a snow covered rwy, the acft hit a chunk of frozen snow. Reportedly, he had departed from the same rwy & had been making touch-and-go landing, but did not see the obstruction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8304R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28 22171
- Airframe hours
- 3,093
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edward R. Higgins
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 11, 1982
- Airport
- 5Y0 · Harrisbille, runway 21, 2,140 × 185 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,050 total · 600 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 12 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APN, 25 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.
Other investigations on N8304R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.