- Date
- January 8, 1988, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N62554Piper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880108048899A
- Case key
- 36082
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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
The Piper PA-23-250 made an instrument approach to the airport. The pilot said he lowered the landing gear prior to touchdown, however, both propellers struck the runway. The pilot tried to make a go-around and the aircraft started to veer to the left. The pilot reduced power and the aircraft made contact with the dirt off the left side of the runway. The pilot and 2 passengers were not injured. Two passengers received minor injuries. Post-crash examination of the aircraft showed the landing gear and landing gear lights and warning horn worked properly, and that the landing gear was retracted when the a/c touched down. No malfunction could be found. The pilot held a valid medical, however, his pilot certificate was commercial privilages asel and private privilages amel. He had received several checkrides from the FAA in multi-engine a/c under 14 CFR 135 allowing him to operate as PIC in multi-engine a/c without this being discovered by the FAA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62554
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 277654035
- Airframe hours
- 4,400
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Newark
- Registered owner
- Teterboro Travel By Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MSV · Monticello, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- AIY · Bader Field, runway 11, 2,950 × 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,900 total · 710 in this make and model · 3,525 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 15 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 350° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AIY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.