- Date
- April 19, 1987, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lehighton, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N43758Piper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870419010649A
- Case key
- 30630
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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
During takeoff roll, the flight encountered a wind gust and the plt aborted the takeoff at about 1500 feet from the takeoff point. The acft continued to slide off the end of the runway, down a slope and across a road impacting two trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43758
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7737133
- Airframe hours
- 1,877
- Engine
- Lycoming I0-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Geostar Corp.
- Registered owner
- William J Jones
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 23, 1987 · 5 hours before
- Airport
- Neeb (Private), runway 9, 2,030 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 533 total · 13 in this make and model · 483 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.