- Date
- July 9, 1987, 16:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N6852JPiper PA-28
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870709034329A
- Case key
- 31939
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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
A us customs blackhawk helicopter intercepted the acft after mistakenly identifing it as a suspected drug smuggling acft. After the acft landed at a gliderport on the edge of the everglades, the helicopter swooped down in the vicinity of the acft & blew it upside down with the rotorwash prior to the mistake being discovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6852J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7625246
- Airframe hours
- 2,900
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- American Hospitality, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TMB · Miami, FL
- Airport
- Kendall Gliderport, runway 9, 3,000 × 50 ft, macadam
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 192 total · 43 in this make and model · 185 as pilot in command · 68 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 9 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.