- Date
- June 13, 1990, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Brigham City, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3637FPiper Aerostar 601P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900613019979A
- Case key
- 17950
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point.
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 airplane touched down short of the runway, and skidded across a raised lip onto the runway. The plane then skidded off the runway to the left. After crossing an open area of sand, the plane came to rest on a parallel taxiway. All landing gear, the wings and elevator were bent. The pilot stated that upon touchdown the landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3637F
- Reported as
- Piper Aerostar 601P (AEROSTAR 6)
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert N. Chester
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- O04 · Carson City, NV
- Airport
- BMC · Brigham City, runway 34, 5,500 × 75 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,005 total · 513 in this make and model · 1,947 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.