- Date
- October 20, 1986, 13:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Big Bear City, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9206DPiper PA-22-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861020049689A
- Case key
- 25458
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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 veered off rwy 7 during landing roll. The plt indicated the acft veered to the right. There was a single rubber skid mark aprx 150 ft long found on the rwy. The wind was reported by another plt to be 'down the runway at 10-15 knots.' Examination of the acft revealed the left brake master cylinder failed. Metal particles had contaminated the brake fluid. Visual inspection of the cylinder walls showed signs of deterioration.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9206D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-6265
- Airframe hours
- 3,168
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Muellner, Peter M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 17, 1985 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- SAN · San Diego, CA
- Destination
- L35 · Big Bear City, CA
- Airport
- L35 · Big Bear City, runway 7, 5,850 × 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
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13,244 total · 69 in this make and model · 6,030 as pilot in command · 214 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBD, 22 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.