- Date
- July 27, 1987, 10:37 local (15:37 UTC)
- Place
- Groton, CT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9558JPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870727038909A
- Case key
- 30462
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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
Shortly after the aircraft departed the airport, air traffic control personnel received a distress call from the non-pilot rated passenger. She stated that the pilot (her husband) was incapacitated by an apparent heart attack and she was not qualified to fly the aircraft. With assistance from air traffic control, the passenger brought the aircraft back to the airport and landed. As the aircraft rolled out after landing, it drifted off the left side of the runway and collided with two parked aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9558J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-3689
- Airframe hours
- 2,643
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Francis Mohr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 29, 1986 · 127 hours before
- Departed
- GON
- Destination
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Airport
- GON · Groton/New London, runway 5, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 66
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GON
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.