- Date
- March 12, 1991, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Fall River, MA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8452PPiper PA28-400
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910312009259A
- Case key
- 36889
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Probable cause
An improper flare and touchdown point which resulted in an overrun of the runway during the landing roll.
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 landed long on runway 33, which is 1600 feet in length. He was unable to stop before running off the departure end of the runway. The airplane rolled through a grass field and was stopped by large rocks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8452P
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-400
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26-27
- Airframe hours
- 3,479
- Engine
- Lycoming IO720-L141-54, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert & Donna Frayser
- Registered owner
- Robert & Donna Frayser
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1990
- Departed
- SHO · Shenandoah Vall, VA
- Airport
- FLR · Fall River Airport, runway 33, 1,600 × 150 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 277.7 total · 62.2 in this make and model · 221 as pilot in command · 30.2 in the last 90 days · 9.6 in the last 30 days · 2.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 17 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
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 N8452P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.