- Date
- November 15, 1987, 20:44 local (Nov 16, 1987, 01:44 UTC)
- Place
- Montoursville, PA
- Injuries
- 3 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9055FPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36065
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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
After takeoff, the plt remained in the traffic pattern to practice takeoffs & landings. He made a touch-&-go, then rprtd on a right downwind for another landing. He acknowledged a clearance to continue, but moments later, an ELT signal began transmitting. About 1 hr later, the acft was fnd where it hit trees & crashed, aprx 2-1/2 mi nw of the arpt, near the top of a hill. Elev of the crash site was about 985 ft; the arpt elev was 529 ft. no preimpact part failure or malfunction was fnd. An obstruction light had been installed on the hilltop, but it had been inop for svrl years.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9055F
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-7740027
- Airframe hours
- 3,541
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Theodore Peet
- Registered owner
- Lycoming Air Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 23, 1987 · 41 hours before
- Departed
- IPT · Williamsport, NY
- Airport
- IPT · Williamsport/Lycoming Co, runway 27, 6,449 × 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 951 total · 173 in this make and model · 846 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IPT, 1 nm away