- Date
- February 6, 1987, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Marlboro, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1486XPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870206002189A
- Case key
- 30601
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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
Stall - inadvertentCause
Light condition - duskFactor
Lack of familiarity with geographic areaFactor
Analysis
The pilot allowed the aircraft to stall and touch down hard causing substantial damage. The pilot was unfamiliar with the short field at this airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1486X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-753529
- Airframe hours
- 3,009
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert Edison Swain
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 1986
- Departed
- PYM · Plymouth, MA
- Destination
- Marlboro, MA
- Airport
- 9B1 · Marlboro, runway 32, 680 × 50 ft, asphalt
N1486XRegistered now · Piper PA-28R-200Airframe modelPiper PA-28R-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 678 total · 351 in this make and model · 299 as pilot in command · 96 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 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.