- Date
- June 27, 1983, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Franklinton, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4903PPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830627030639A
- Case key
- 20955
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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 acft slid into a tree during a landing on a wet rwy. The plt had encountered the rain shortly after takeoff and returned to the arpt. The private strip had become soft from the rain and the plt lost control of the acft. The acft veered off the strip and collided with a tree. Post crash fire destroyed the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4903P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-494
- Airframe hours
- 3,443
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lee W. Barber
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 22, 1982 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- Franklinton, LA
- Airport
- runway 9, 1,800 × ft, dirt
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,341 total · 871 in this make and model · 1,230 as pilot in command · 57 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.