- Date
- December 3, 1986, 07:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Barre, VT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6375UAero Commander 680
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861203064029A
- Case key
- 30449
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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
Witness observed the acft touchdown about 2000 feet down 5001 foot rwy. The rwy was reported wet and icy in spots at the north end only. The acft overran the rwys end and went down into a ravine about 25 ft below rwy level. There was no indication of malfunction of the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6375U
- Reported as
- Aero Commander 680
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1466-89
- Airframe hours
- 9,418
- Engine
- Lycoming ICSO-540, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Energy Air Center Charters, doing business as Air Parcel Express
- Registered owner
- Inter American Leasing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 16, 1986 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- MHT · Manchester, NH
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MPV · Edward F. Knapp State, runway 35, 5,001 × 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,745 total · 31 in this make and model · 1,577 as pilot in command · 124 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 230° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MPV, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.