- Date
- July 6, 1985, 19:00 local (Jul 7, 1985, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brownsville, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N21698Piper PA-32RT-300T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850706029559A
- Case key
- 21788
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While practicing touch-and-go landings the plt allowed the acft to descend below the proper glide slope while on final apch. The acft impacted a power line aprx 1000 ft short of the rwy and crashed on the side of a drainage ditch levee. The elevation of the line was about 10 ft above the height of and across the road from the levee. The plt reportedly does not remember anything after passing the elevation of 400 ft AGL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21698
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32RT-300T (PA-32RT-30)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R7887226
- Airframe hours
- 698
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-S1AD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joel Rodriquez
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- BRO · Brownsville, runway 35, 6,000 × 150 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 244 total · 64 in this make and model · 155 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRO
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 N21698 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.