- Date
- December 2, 1989, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Simsbury, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2823TPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891202053279A
- Case key
- 36585
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of airspeed and distance during landing resulting in an overshoot and swerve off the runway. The dusk light conditions, snow, and frozen terrain were contributing factors to the accident.
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
While returning to burlington, CT from a round-robin cross-country flight, then flight encountered snow and lowering ceilings. During the approach, the pilot diverted to Simsbury, CT. The airplane was observed to touch down about 2/3 down the runway. Skid marks were later observed on the runway which continued off the right side onto frozen snow and terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2823T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7235140
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Johnnycake Service,Inc.
- Departed
- 22B · Burlington, CT
- Destination
- 22B · Burlington, CT
- Airport
- 4B9 · Simsbury, runway 21, 2,205 × 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 215 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- 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.