- Date
- January 10, 1988, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Old Bridge, NJ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9317NPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36094
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - icyFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The flight made a normal approach and touched down on runway 24. As the pilot applied pwr for takeoff due to the hazardous runway conditions, the pilot lost directional control and the left main landing gear impacted plowed snow at the edge of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9317N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-35017
- Airframe hours
- 1,616
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- E. K. Williams
- Registered owner
- Edward K Williams
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 9, 1987 · 61 hours before
- Airport
- 3N6 · Old Bridge, runway 24, 3,600 × 50 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 303 total · 29 in this make and model · 151 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles