- Date
- June 3, 1991, 19:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Dushore, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2177XPiper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910603019179A
- Case key
- 36937
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Probable cause
The pilot landed with excessive airspeed, which resulted in ineffective braking and a loss of control.
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 landing on a 2000 feet turf runway the pilot touched down with excessive airspeed. The pilot was unable to effectively apply the brakes, ran off the end of runway, struck a tree and flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2177X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7205032
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Delaware Valley Aviation
- Registered owner
- Delaware Valley Aviation
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- PNE · Philadelphia, PA
- Airport
- PA71 · Dwights Delight, runway 25, 2,000 × 75 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 200 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.