- Date
- June 24, 1987, 11:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Southbridge, MA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4348TPiper PA-34
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870624026389A
- Case key
- 30682
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 landing roll, a failure of a tire tube caused a flat tire and control of the aircraft was lost. When the tire was dismantled, the inner tube was found to be defective at the joint seam. Total time on the acft and tire WAS407 hrs. The acft had a 100 hr inspection 53 hours prior to the failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4348T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-8433038
- Airframe hours
- 407
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sigurd Swanberg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1987 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- Jackman, ME
- Destination
- Southbridge, MA
- Airport
- 3BO · Southbridge, runway 2, 3,500 × 75 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,100 total · 300 in this make and model · 260 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.