- Date
- August 7, 1989, 12:06 local (16:06 UTC)
- Place
- Hammonton, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N22179Piper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890807027899A
- Case key
- 36453
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Probable cause
The pilot overshooting a landing during a precautionary landing due to deteriorating weather conditions. Contributing factor(s) was: the pilot's decision to attempt the flight after being advised that VFR flight was not recommended and inadequate preflight by not assuring that appropriate IFR charts were available for the flight into known marginal weather conditions.
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
Pilot received wx briefing for a VFR flight to the atlantic city, NJ area. VFR flight was not recommended. After arriving in the cape may area he decided to return to his departure point due to wx. During the return flight he made a precautionary landing at piney hollow due to low ceilings & rain. He landed long and ran off the end of the runway into trees. He did not file IFR in flight since he did not have the appropriate enroute & approach charts with him.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22179
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7916063
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D36, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Northeast Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PNE · Northeast Phil, PA
- Destination
- Cape May, NJ
- Airport
- 8ON · Piney Hollow, runway 4, 2,800 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 472 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Temperature
- -0 °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.