- Date
- March 4, 1987, 10:40 local (15:40 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41531Piper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870304004529A
- Case key
- 31753
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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 he was on final approach & cleared to land long, when a 737 was cleared for an immediate takeoff and he was told to make s turns or whatever necessary. He slowed to land and when he was approximately 10 to 20 ft. in the air he encountered wake turbulence and rolled 60 to 70 degrees right & nose down recovered to level attitude and landed on grass to the right of runway. According to the radar plot, adequate spacing existed between the departing 737 and the Piper seneca.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41531
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7450129
- Airframe hours
- 5,518
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C136, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Air South Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 17, 1987 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- PBI · West Palm Beach, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MIA · Miami Int'L Airport, runway 9R, 13,000 × 150 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
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 1,950 in this make and model · 18,000 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 64 °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.