- Date
- December 31, 1983, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Ekalaka, MT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4830SPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831231065059A
- Case key
- 16314
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - snow coveredFactor
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - icyFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The plt stated that during touchdown the acft hit an area of patchy snow & the acft veered off the rwy into a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4830S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1261
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard & Barbara Elmore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 914 · Laird Ranch, runway 12, 2,400 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 200 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLS, 50 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.
Other investigations on N4830S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.