- Date
- November 17, 1985, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3011PPiper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851117057809A
- Case key
- 30268
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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.
Hard landing
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overload
Analysis
The acft experienced a collapse of the nose gear during the landing roll after what the plt said was a normal landing. The right main gear was further damaged during removal of the acft from the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3011P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7970328
- Airframe hours
- 2,238
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-E8, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sakow Association
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1985
- Departed
- TEEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- AIY · Atlantic City, NJ
- Airport
- AIY · Bader Field, runway 29, 2,950 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,270 total · 448 in this make and model · 4,098 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.