- Date
- August 7, 1988, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stormville, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N34BCCocks Starduster SA-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36201
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.
Analysis
The pilot of a starduster SA-300 was on a local flight when he landed at an uncontrolled airport which had been notamed closed and had an x on the approach end of the runway. The pilot said a vehicle obscured the approach end during the approach and then left the runway. He said he did not observe the x on the runway. The aircraft drifted right and struck a vehicle parked next to the runway. The pilot had not obtained a weather briefing prior to takeoff. The x used on the runway was 2 ft wide and 16 ft long, much smaller than recommended by the FAA. Three other aircraft also landed at the same airport while the runway was marked with the x.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34BC
- Reported as
- Cocks Starduster SA-300 (STARDUSTER)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1750
- Airframe hours
- 36
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bert E. Cocks
- Registered owner
- Herbert E Cocks
- Departed
- NG3 · Montgomery, NY
- Airport
- N69 · Stormville, runway 24, 3,320 × 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 16,004 total · 454 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point -0 °F