- Date
- November 5, 1982, 19:00 local (Nov 6, 1982, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Nantucket, MA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7689YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821106057209A
- Case key
- 71822
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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
Pilot approached runway and right wing dropped. Pilot corrected with full power aileron and elevator. Aircraft yawed and rolled to left. Left wing hit and main gear collapsed. Aircraft groundlooped and stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7689Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-769
- Airframe hours
- 3,346
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanley Gitlow
- Registered owner
- Stanley Gitlow
- Departed
- C · Providence, RI
- Destination
- C · Nantucket, MA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ACK · Nantucket, runway 33, 4,000 × 150 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 6,715 total · 5,788 in this make and model · 6,606 as pilot in command · 89 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
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 N7689Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.