- Date
- August 5, 1985, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wildwood, NJ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N21521Piper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35938
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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
N21521 taxied onto runway 10 at the intersection of runway 14 after observing another aircraft taxi and take off from that point. N21521 did not attain sufficient airspeed for takeoff prior to running out of available runway. The pilot did not apply hard braking to avoid nosing over. The aircraft was not stopped prior to colliding with a fence on the airport boundary. The length from the intersection to the end of runway 10 is about 850 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21521
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 287916045
- Airframe hours
- 21,525
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harry M. Berman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 12, 1985 · 7,663 hours before
- Airport
- WWD · Cape May Co., runway 10, 4,999 × 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 89 total · 89 in this make and model · 43 as pilot in command · 43 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- WWD