- Date
- October 4, 1985, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Troy, MI
- Injuries
- 4 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N505PCPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851004049119A
- Case key
- 13364
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Level off - excessiveCause
Go-around - delayedFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - runway
Analysis
The plt landed on rwy 27 with winds from 185 degs at 20 KTS gusting to 30 KTS. The acft ballooned on short final. The plt added pwr but the right wing dropped and hit the rwy. The acft cartwheeled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N505PC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-5
- Airframe hours
- 3,941
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jack J. Jessen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 1985
- Departed
- PWK · Wheeling, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 7D2 · Troy-Oakland, runway 27, 3,855 × 50 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,340 total · 1,160 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 185° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.