- Date
- August 9, 1992, 21:45 local (Aug 10, 1992, 02:45 UTC)
- Place
- Brooksville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N119QPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920809033069A
- Case key
- 33121
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain alignment with the runway during landing. This resulted in an in-flight collision with a runway marker, collapse of the right main landing gear, and subsequent collision with terrain.
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 private pilot was conducting a night approach for landing in VFR conditions. Inspection of the crash site by the FAA revealed the right main landing gear collided with a runway marker located between the landing runway and taxiway. The airplane remained airborne for about 300 feet before it came to a complete stop in the grass medium. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the pilot was not injured. The pilot stated upon landing the right main landing gear collapsed and the airplane slid off the runway on to the grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N119Q
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-316
- Airframe hours
- 2,732
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stone, Steve L.
- Registered owner
- Steve L. Stone
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1991 · 140 hours before
- Departed
- BCT · Boca Raton, FL
- Destination
- BKV · Brooksville, FL
- Airport
- BKV · Hernando County, runway 2, 5,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 700 in this make and model · 950 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TPA, 20 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.
Other investigations on N119Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.