- Date
- February 28, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Quakertown, PA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N38389Piper PA-32R-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830228006799A
- Case key
- 35158
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Undershoot
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The acft touched down about 1 ft short of the rwy. The left gear & wing was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38389
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7780423
- Airframe hours
- 1,737
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- North East Airways
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 12, 1982 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- BWI · Baltimore, MD
- Destination
- UKT · Quakertown, PA
- Airport
- UKT · Quakertown, runway 29, 3,200 × 50 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 539 total · 56 in this make and model · 328 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
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 N38389 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.