- Date
- May 22, 1984, 15:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42984Piper PA-34-220T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840522023159A
- Case key
- 16386
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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - improperCause
Remedial action - inadequateCause
Analysis
According to the plt, the acft touched down during a landing, then became airborne again in unfavorable wind conditions. He reported that the plane then slammed back onto the rwy & was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42984
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-220T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8333071
- Airframe hours
- 195
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-KB, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 24, 1984
- Departed
- ASE · Aspen, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- APA · Arapahoe County, runway 34R, 8,500 × 101 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,477 total · 113 in this make and model · 1,305 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.