- Date
- May 18, 1985, 23:15 local (May 19, 1985, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Ellington, CT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N300UMPiper PA-32R-301
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850518018009A
- Case key
- 35877
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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 colldied with a stump during a landing attempt at Ellington arpt. The acft had touched dwn about 25 ft short of the rwy. The left aileron was damaged but the acft made a go-around & returned to westover air base & landed. According to the plt, windshear was encountered during the approach.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300UM
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-321043
- Airframe hours
- 878
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Westover Air Service, doing business as Osprey,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Osprey, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BAF · Westfield, MA
- Airport
- 7B9 · Ellington, runway 1, 1,800 × 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 905 total · 52 in this make and model · 712 as pilot in command · 218 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 270° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CEF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.