- Date
- September 27, 1988, 19:25 local (Sep 28, 1988, 00:25 UTC)
- Place
- Martinsburg, PA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N244GBBarker Quickie Q2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880927045369A
- Case key
- 30756
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot reported he was practicing takeoffs and landings, and that he was 'determined to hold the approach speed to 80 and rate of descent to 500 feet per minute . . .' The approach was flown at dusk as light was beginning to fail. The pilot stated, 'I suddenly realized I was low and applied power, but it was . . . Too late.' The aircraft struck two approach light structures & the ground about 650 ft short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N244GB
- Reported as
- Barker Quickie Q2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2446
- Airframe hours
- 11
- Engine
- Revmaster R2100D, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gerald Barker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · May 7, 1988 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- AOO
- Destination
- AOO
- Airport
- AOO · Altoona-Blair County, runway 20, 5,466 × 100 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
- 70
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 919 total · 11 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Observed at
- AOO, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N244GB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.