- Date
- July 28, 2020, 20:00 local (Jul 29, 2020, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Indian Trail, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N33JMPiper PA28
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20200728008349A
- Case key
- 101708
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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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper landing approach speed and touchdown point, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
As the pilot approached 2,350-ft-long runway for landing at the destination airport, he flew the airplane higher than normal to avoid trees. The pilot noted that during the final approach the airplane’s speed was also higher than normal, and that the airplane touched down near the mid-point of the runway. The pilot attempted to stop the airplane on the remaining runway, but the airplane overran the departure end before it struck dense vegetation and a ditch. The airplane’s wings and the forward portion of the fuselage were substantially damaged. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33JM
- Reported as
- Piper PA28 (235)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-10305
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 2,826.6
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-B205, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kingdom Air Corps
- Registered owner
- Kingdom Air Corps
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 14, 2019
- Departed
- EQY · Monroe, NC
- Destination
- 28A · Indian Trail, NC
- Airport
- 28A · Goose Creek, runway 04, 2,350 × 35 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 10, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 320 total · 65 in this make and model · 216 as pilot in command · 14.5 in the last 90 days · 14.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- EQY, 7 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 13, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.