- Date
- January 17, 1987, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Randolph, NH
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2430GPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870117000639A
- Case key
- 30581
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Student pilot on a cross country instructional flight became disoriented, decided to return to departure airport. However seeing that he was running low on fuel looked for an airport to land to refuel and find out his location. He decided to make a precautionary landing on a road and during decent collided with a guy wire. During roll out, the left wing struck a telephone pole and the aircraft was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2430G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-79A0525
- Airframe hours
- 2,488
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Keegan, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 24, 1986 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- 3B2 · Marshfield, MA
- Destination
- ALB · Albany, NY
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 173 total · 131 in this make and model · 30 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.