- Date
- August 16, 1982, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tunkhannock, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3732ZPiper PA-22-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 16, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820816039339A
- Case key
- 72882
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a landing in calm wind conditions, the aircraft was high on final approach, so the pilot added flaps and slipped the plane to lose altitude. He touched down about 1000 ft down the 2000 ft runway. He reported that after landing, he applied the brakes, but they seemed to fail. He intentionally ground looped the plane at the end of the runway to keep it from going over a bank and into a trailer park. During the maneuver, the aircraft flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3732Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-7611
- Airframe hours
- 3,552
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A1A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bernard Rottschaefer
- Registered owner
- Bernard Rottschaefer
- Departed
- RDG · Reading, PA
- Destination
- Antoine, AR
- Airport
- 76N · Skyhaven, runway 36, 2,000 × 300 ft, grass/turf
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
- 71
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,700 total · 3,300 in this make and model · 3,466 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 176 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.