- Date
- April 16, 1987, 22:08 local (Apr 17, 1987, 02:08 UTC)
- Place
- Nantucket, MA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N40395Piper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30628
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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
The Piper PA-23-250 attempted a go-around after crossing the threshold and observing the runway lights were not on during a night instrument approach. The pilot reported that he added full power and retracted the wing flaps. The procedure in the Piper manual is to add full power, retract the landing gear, and then slowly retract the wing flaps. The aircraft made ground contact with the landing gear still extended and it passed through a drainage ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40395
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 277305158
- Airframe hours
- 4,715
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Haverford-Covington,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Haverford Bristol, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ACK · Nantucket, runway 24, 6,303 × 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 610 total · 320 in this make and model · 506 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ACY