- Date
- March 26, 1988, 18:15 local (Mar 27, 1988, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47766Piper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880326006569A
- Case key
- 25971
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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
At the end of a cross country flt, on touchdown, the acft began to bounce. The pilot was unable to stop the acft before it ran off the end of the rwy, where it came to rest after the left main gear collapsed. A witness said that the acft landed half way down the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47766
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 347870002
- Airframe hours
- 1,241
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360E, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Milliom Air
- Registered owner
- Levin, Gordon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1987 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- SJC · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- 022 · Columbia, CA
- Airport
- 022 · Columbia, runway 17, 4,060 × 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
- 31
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,200 total · 543 in this make and model · 2,942 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOD, 35 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.