- Date
- October 9, 1987, 20:10 local (Oct 10, 1987, 00:10 UTC)
- Place
- Weston, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8391APiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871009082989A
- Case key
- 36029
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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
Drg a night arrival, when the acft was apchg the boston tca, the plt dscndd to 1000 ft. as he was leveling off, he noted a power loss & was unable to reach the destn arpt. He identified a field & initiated an emerg landing. Drg the apch, the acft struck power lines, then impacted the ground. The plt rprtd a faulty fuel gauge & told authorities he believed the acft ran out of fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8391A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8116231
- Airframe hours
- 1,990
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rodney S. Goreham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 21, 1987 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- Beverly, MA
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 894 total · 426 in this make and model · 734 as pilot in command · 410 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.