- Date
- January 4, 1987, 13:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Lantana, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N656RCessna 310-D
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870104000089A
- Case key
- 31745
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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 pilot flying in marginal weather requested radar assistance in landing at his destination. He was given a radar vector to a position on downwind and saw an uncontrolled airport under him. He landed on a closed runway that was marked closed due to construction. During the landing he struck a ditch across the runway and the plywood and sandbag markings causing substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N656R
- Reported as
- Cessna 310-D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 39099
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-A1A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mock Electronics
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 2, 1986 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- MYGF · Freeport, WI
- Destination
- PBI · W.Palm Beach, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- LNA · Lantana, runway 27, 3,489 × 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16,700 total · 455 in this make and model · 10,500 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 24 knots, gusting 31
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 8 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.