- Date
- December 28, 1989, 06:30 local (12:30 UTC)
- Place
- Clinton, OK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3809WPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891228053699A
- Case key
- 23089
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Probable cause
Pilots failure to correctly maintain the proper glidepath, which caused him to impact short of the runway.
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
During a bright night approach the acft touched down 12-15 ft short of the rwy. The pilot stated weather was not a factor and there was no mechanical problems with the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3809W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-739
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hart, Phillip L.
- Departed
- OK16 · Owasso, OK
- Airport
- CLK · Clinton Muni, runway 17, 4,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 960 total · 149 in this make and model · 960 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CSM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.