- Date
- December 10, 1992, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Cheriton, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9102WPiper PA-28-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921210056669A
- Case key
- 37278
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Probable cause
The pilot's improperly planned approach, resulting in a touchdown too FAR down the runway, with excessive airspeed, and the subsequent encounter with soft terrain and nose over.
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 was conducting a landing at the grass airstrip. He said, 'touchdown was slightly long, at 80 mph. Braking action [was] nil...planned to ground loop at the end...nose gear caught in soft ground. Aircraft flipped over.' The FAA report stated, 'he landed halfway down the runway with too much speed.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9102W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-10714
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540B, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Paul B. Byram
- Registered owner
- Paul B. Byram
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- GMU · Greenville, SC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- NONE · Eagles Nest, runway 18, 2,100 × 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
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,900 total · 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Temperature
- 45 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.