- Date
- May 3, 1985, 08:20 local (12:20 UTC)
- Place
- Montgomery, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9439NPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850503058469A
- Case key
- 35865
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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
The acft made a forced landing after the manifold pressure kept dropping. Some adjustment was made by throttle application and finally alt air was used. When the plt decided that the arpt could not be reached he landed on a highway. The left & nose gear collapsed during the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9439N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- PA28R-35153
- Airframe hours
- 2,082
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- F. A. Brind
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 15, 1984
- Departed
- ASH · Nashua, NH
- Destination
- MMU · Morristown, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MGJ · Orange Co., runway 3, 5,000 × 100 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 530 total · 222 in this make and model · 498 as pilot in command · 62 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 73 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.