- Date
- July 14, 1985, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Provincetown, MA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8210HPiper PA-32R-301T
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850714031069A
- Case key
- 35908
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During arrival, the acft was vectored for an ILS rwy 7 apch which was made with a tail wind. On his 1st attempt, the plt made a missed apch & was vectored for another ILS. After making a 2nd apch, he landed. The plt stated that while he was landing, he mistook the rwy end lights & lights on the localizer antenna as lights on additional rwy. When he recognized that there was insufficient rwy remaining, it was to late to go around. Unable to stop on the remaining rwy, the acft continued off the end & onto soft sandy terrain where the gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8210H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-301T (PA-32R-301)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R8229054
- Airframe hours
- 670
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-S1AD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Oquossoc Associates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HYA · Hyannis, MA
- Destination
- PVC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PVC · Provicetown, runway 7, 3,498 × 100 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,175 total · 310 in this make and model · 1,110 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PVC
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 N8210H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.