- Date
- March 27, 1993, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Boulder, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4519TPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930327009299I
- Case key
- 18253
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Probable cause
Not determined.
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.
Nose gear collapsed
Analysis
The nose gear collapsed during landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4519T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7250122
- Airframe hours
- 4,004
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mead, Helen L.
- Registered owner
- Journey Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 28, 1993 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- 1V5
- Destination
- 1V5
- Airport
- 1V5 · Boulder Municipal, runway 8, 4,100 × 75 ft, asphalt
N4519TRegistration cancelled Oct 9, 2014 · Piper PA-34-200Airframe modelPiper PA-34-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,260 total · 1,331 in this make and model · 2,091 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BJC, 10 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 N4519T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.