- Date
- May 15, 1991, 12:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N83021Piper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910515016189A
- Case key
- 32871
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of the wrong runway for wind conditions.
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
Pilot used wrong runway for wind conditions and landed with tail wind. Pilot was unable to stop aircraft before running off departure end of runway into the gulf of Mexico.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83021
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8190104
- Airframe hours
- 1,899
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bay Air Flying Service. Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bay Air Flying Service. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 18, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- SPG · St. Petersburg, FL
- Airport
- CDK · George T. Lewis, runway 5, 2,355 × 100 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 306 total · 19 in this make and model · 209 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 53 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.