- Date
- July 14, 1987, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lincolnville, ME
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7617YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870714034569A
- Case key
- 30505
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was making an approach to knox county arpt, rockland me and after receiving a wx report from UNICOM that the local wx was below approach minimums he indicated that he would make a missed approach. There was no further communications from the acft. A witness on top of bald mountain, near the arpt, said the fog was very thick and that he heard the acft hit the mountain. He also said that the acft eng was running smoothly and he heard no sounds of malfunction. The acft was found aprx 15 miles from the arpt on a 30 degree heading. The plt had earlier received a report that the wx was below minimums and no acft had arrived at the dest arpt that morning. An instructor who has given the plt inst trng said that he observed a weakness in missed apprch planning during training but it seemed to have been corrected after training. The post acc investigation revealed no evidence of acft malfunction. No evidence of medical factor involvement.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7617Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-690
- Airframe hours
- 3,621
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Air Trans. Assoc, Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1987 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- MHT · Manchester, NH
- Destination
- RKD · Rockland, ME
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- RKD · Knox Co. Regional, runway 3, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,288 total · 244 in this make and model · 1,018 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- 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.
Other investigations on N7617Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.