- Date
- February 22, 1985, 20:00 local (Feb 23, 1985, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Utica, MI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N100RNPiper PA-31T
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850222006949A
- Case key
- 12819
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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 pilot attempted a VOR approach and missed. He advised ATC he was going to attempt the NDB & if he could not see the rwy he would go to metro at detroit or pontiac. On the NDB approach the aircraft struck trees 960 ft below the moa. The aircraft flipped over landing on the nose & top of the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N100RN
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31T-7820091
- Airframe hours
- 1,516
- Engine
- P&W PT 6A-28, 620 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Norment Industries, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · February 12, 1985 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- MGM · Montgomery, AL
- Destination
- UIZ · Utica, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- UIZ · Berz-Macomb, runway 22, 4,220 × 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
- Age
- 51
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 11,000 total · 800 in this make and model · 8,500 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 0° at 3 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MTC, 7 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.