- Date
- June 2, 1988, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Latrobe, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N90DRPiper PA-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880602017699A
- Case key
- 36158
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Probable cause
Accident was pilot loss of directional control during landing.
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 plt rprtd that drg an apch to land, the acft was too high on final apch, so he elected to go around & make another apch to land. He rcvd tower approval for a low apch, but when he tried to apply power for the go-around, there was a lack of eng response. He rprtd the controls felt mushy & he became concerned about approaching a stall, but he checked his airspeed & saw that it was adequate (110 KTS). He retracted the flaps, but the acft contd to descend. Subsequently, he landed diagonally on the arpt, about 30 deg off the rwy heading & the acft was damaged. He rprtd the acft had just rcvd an annual inspn & that the fuel tanks had been totally filled before the flt. Also, he rprtd that drg the flt, he had crossfed fuel from right to left. However, no reason was found for the lack of eng response & acft performance.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90DR
- Reported as
- Piper PA-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 62P090281
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-A1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Westmoreland Mech. Testing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PSB · Philipsburg, PA
- Destination
- LBE
- Airport
- LBE · Westmoreland, runway 5, 7,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,300 total · 920 in this make and model · 2,300 as pilot in command · 62 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.