- Date
- June 2, 1991, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tuckhannock, PA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N47667Piper PA-28R-201T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910602020189A
- Case key
- 36938
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to achieve a proper touchdown point. A factor related to the accident was the pilot's failure to make a go-around.
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 reported the aircraft touched down approx 300 to 400 feet from the approach end, would not stop and ran off the departure end of the runway. The FAA reported the airplane touched down approximately 1/2 way down the runway, bounced, touched down again and ran off the departure end of the runway. The airplane went down an enbankment receiving substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47667
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201T (PA-28R-201)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7703420
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-F, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Michaelson
- Registered owner
- Thomas Michaelson
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- N47 · Pottstown, PA
- Airport
- 76N · Skyhaven, runway 1, 1,975 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 419 total · 224 in this make and model · 347 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- 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.