- Date
- February 28, 1983, 15:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Erie, CO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8295LPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830228005619A
- Case key
- 16046
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 stated he encountered an unexpected downdraft or shear effect & landed approximately 102 ft short of the rwy. The acft then collided with a bar ditch located about 63 ft from the threshold folding back the main gear. The acft then slid down the centerline of the rwy, veered off to the right side & stopped approximately 75-100 ft from the approach end of the rwy. The ditch was about 3 ft wide & 2 ft deep, & is oriented perpendicular to the rwy. There was another much larger ditch located at the opposite end of the rwy. Neither ditch was mentioned in any arpt publication or NOTAM identifying it as a potential hazard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8295L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8170033
- Airframe hours
- 1,250
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-EB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aztec Industries, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 30, 1982 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Airport
- 48V · Tri County, runway 33, 5,280 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,397 total · 380 in this make and model · 1,257 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BJC, 6 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.