- Date
- September 12, 1986, 20:26 local (Sep 13, 1986, 00:26 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1421TPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860912044849A
- Case key
- 31704
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 plt stated that his landing apch was high. The acft touched down too fast and the plt veered the acft off the left side of the rwy to avoid contacting a fence at the end of the rwy. The acft traveled into soft dirt and the landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1421T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7250314
- Airframe hours
- 1,948
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles R. Burr
- Registered owner
- Gary A. Rief
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1986
- Departed
- MLB · Melbourne, FL
- Airport
- 86X · Burrs, runway 19, 2,000 × 60 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,101 total · 197 in this make and model · 982 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 80° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.