- Date
- August 5, 1987, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Nobelsville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4358TPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870805045129A
- Case key
- 13808
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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.
Overrun
All available runway - not usedFactor
Lack of familiarity with aircraftFactor
Proper touchdown point - misjudgedFactor
Go-around - not performedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Analysis
The 160 hr tt pilot, recently checked out in this make/model acft, was returning to home base on a x-country flt. He ld long and was unable to stop before hitting a fence off the departure end of the rnwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4358T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 84016040
- Airframe hours
- 952
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D36, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Indianapolis Aviation
- Registered owner
- Indianapolis Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 8, 1987 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- DNV · Danville, IL
- Destination
- 4I8 · Nobelsville, IN
- Airport
- 4I8 · Metropolitan, runway 32, 3,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
N4358TRegistered now · Piper PA-28-161Airframe modelPiper PA-28-161Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 160 total · 11 in this make and model · 90 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 10 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.