- Date
- May 25, 1987, 20:15 local (May 26, 1987, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Astatula, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6406JPiper PA-28-180D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870525016109A
- Case key
- 31915
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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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditch
Became lost/disoriented - inadvertentCause
Lack of total experience
Light condition - dusk
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,total
Analysis
The plt became disoriented and performed a precautionary landing. During the landing roll, the pilot taxied into a ditchand the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6406J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-4823
- Airframe hours
- 1,771
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Martin Guglielmo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 16, 1987 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- BKV · Brooksville, FL
- Destination
- ZPH · Zephyr Hills, FL
- Airport
- FD54 · Duda Clay Island, runway 36, 3,000 × 40 ft, grass/turf
N6406JRegistered now · Piper PA-28-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 in this make and model · 23 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 70° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCO, 24 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.