- Date
- March 6, 1987, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tallahassee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N39588Piper PA-32RT-300T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870306005349A
- Case key
- 31865
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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
Control of the acft was lost due to a strong wind gust created by the tree line next to the rwy & the acft crashed next to the rwy. A plt who had landed just prior to that time stated that he had sustained a momentary lost of acft control during the flare due to the severe turbulence created by the tree line. Surface wind gusts were estimated as a x-wind component from the right of 40 degs at 40 knts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39588
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32RT-300T (PA-32RT-30)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R7887112
- Airframe hours
- 1,080
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-51AD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leclair Advertising, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 13, 1987 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- PFN · Panama City, FL
- Destination
- 68J · Tallahassee, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 68J · Tallahassee, runway 34, 3,250 × 50 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,080 total · 36 in this make and model · 5,569 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 18 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.