- Date
- August 16, 1984, 19:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Put-In-Bay, OH
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4428TPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840816045139A
- Case key
- 12742
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Plt departed on flt with 30 gals fuel. En route weather required route deviation, extending flt. Calculated fuel reserve was consumed before reaching destination. When fuel exhaustion occurred, plt attempted forced landing on curving road. Acft departed road surface at curve during landing roll, went into marshy terrain & collided with two sign structures. Gear collapsed in overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4428T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7235047
- Airframe hours
- 5,200
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lawrence Rohl
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 23, 1984 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- CGX · Chicago, IL
- Destination
- PCW · Port Clinton, OH
- Airport
- OH30 · Put-In-Bay
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,390 total · 235 in this make and model · 1,300 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TOL, 44 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.