- Date
- April 1, 1993, 19:26 local (Apr 2, 1993, 02:26 UTC)
- Place
- Eckert, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8210YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930401010899A
- Case key
- 18278
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain adequate clearance from the truck during the landing. Factors which contributed to the accident were: the pilot's poor judgement in attempting the operation, and the driver's poor judgement in not vacating all personnel from the truck.
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
A pickup truck was positioned at the end of the runway with its headlights on to guide the pilot to his unlighted private strip. The pilot said he was too low on the approach, and the nose gear struck the top of the truck cab. Three children and an adult were sitting in the truck. A four-year-old child received serious head injuries. The airplane subsequently made a wheels-up landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8210Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1337
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Widner, Edward D.
- Registered owner
- Arbco Electronics
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 14, 1992 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- APA · Englewood, CO
- Airport
- 8CO5 · Widner Private, runway 4, 2,200 × 50 ft, gravel
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
- 55
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Flight engineer, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25,000 total · 6,000 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 69 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 34 °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.