- Date
- January 27, 1988, 19:00 local (Jan 28, 1988, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spring, CO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1246TPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880127001479A
- Case key
- 17442
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Analysis
The private plt and two passengers were conducting a personal night flight. During landing, the aircraft drifted left and the left main gear struck a snow drift. The plt elected to go around and on the second approach at touchdown, the aircraft skidded left and the left wing settled onto the snow drift. The wing slid along the snow drift for 300 feet, before coming to rest. The left main gear had separated from the aircraft during the first landing. The plts recommendation for prevention of this acc was 'go-around sooner before touchdown in snowbank that sheared off landing gear.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1246T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327200034
- Airframe hours
- 2,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard E. Crouse
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1987
- Departed
- PUB · Pueblo, CO
- Airport
- OOV · Meadow Lake, runway 33, 4,150 × 35 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 148 total · 117 in this make and model · 73 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N1246T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.