- Date
- January 12, 2008, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lapine, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84JCPiper PA-32-300
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Birmingham FSDO-09
- FAA report
- 20080112014449A
- Case key
- 67365
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that as he approached 4AL9, he noticed some trees about 800 feet from the approach end of runway 4. He said that the trees scared him, and therefore he purposely came in higher. He said he lowered the nose of the airplane and gained airspeed to110 knots. He reduced power, and landed long with only 800 feet remaining on the runway. He said that he was unable to conduct a go-around so he applied the brakes and steered the airplane into a thicket of trees.
Factual narrative
On January 12, 2008, at 1500 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-32-300, N84JC, registered to and operated by a private individual, as a Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) 14 Part 91 personal collided with trees when the pilot landed long and ran off the runway at the T W Spear Memorial Airport (4AL9), Lapine, Alabama. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The private pilot reported no injuries. The flight originated from Troy Municipal Airport (TOI), Troy, Alabama, at 1450.
The pilot stated that as he approached 4AL9, he noticed some trees about 800 feet from the approach end of runway 4. He said that the trees scared him, and therefore he purposely came in higher. He said he lowered the nose of the airplane and gained airspeed to110 knots. He reduced power, and landed long with only 800 feet remaining on the runway. He said that he was unable to conduct a go-around so he applied the brakes and steered the airplane into a thicket of trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84JC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-7540068
- Airframe hours
- 1,925
- Engine
- Lycoming TI0-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mark A Byard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 2007 · 1,530 hours before
- Departed
- TOI · Troy, AL
- Destination
- 4AL9 · Lapine, AL
- Airport
- 4AL9 · T W Spear Memorial Airport, runway 4, 2,909 × 30 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
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 102 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KTOI, 16 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.