- Date
- January 14, 1989, 12:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Turners Falls, MA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1057XPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890114000479A
- Case key
- 36364
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Probable cause
Loss of control during landing roll due to ice on the runway, and collision with a snow bank off the runway which sheared the left main landing gear.
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
During landing at Mt. Snow, Vermont, the airplane slid on runway ice and the pilot initiated a go around. During the go around the airplane struck a snow bank and sheared off the left main gear. When airborne the pilot declared an emergency and was vectored to another airport where he made an emergency landing and damaged the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1057X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7505202
- Airframe hours
- 3,729
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ramon Gonzalez
- Registered owner
- Ramon O Gonzaley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 20, 1988 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Destination
- RUT · Rutland, VT
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- runway 19, 2,650 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 763 total · 245 in this make and model · 552 as pilot in command · 73 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1057X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.