- Date
- October 21, 1985, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Amite, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47558Piper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851021057269A
- Case key
- 21988
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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.
Overrun
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - wetFactor
Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area - selectedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Analysis
The plt reported a loss of brake effectiveness while landing on a dew-covered sod strip. Unable to stop, the acft slid through a fence, damaging the wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47558
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7816095
- Airframe hours
- 1,136
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hood Tractoc Co. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 4, 1985
- Airport
- SLA9 · Skyline, runway 27, 2,800 × 200 ft, grass/turf
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 334 total · 36 in this make and model · 234 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCB
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 N47558 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.