- Date
- November 25, 1995, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Placid, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5030SPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 27, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19951125038939A
- Case key
- 39128
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing, and subsequently the airplane veered off the runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot was landing on runway 32 which was snow covered. During the landing roll, the airplane veered off the runway. The pilot also reported that he had 'landed on snow on shorter runways and was not concerned with landing, except that I was a little fast. Possible to have come in slower.' The pilot stated that the winds were light and variable and there were no mechancial malfunctions.
Factual narrative
On November 25, 1995, about 1030 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-28R-200, N5030S, was substantially damaged when it veered off the side of the runway, during the landing roll, at the Lake Placid Airport, Lake Placid, New York. The commercial pilot and passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, for the personal flight that departed from Easton, Pennsylvania, about 0845. There was no flight plan for the flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
In the NTSB form 6120.1/2, the pilot stated:
...Received airport advisories from Lake Placid, winds light and variable favoring runway 32. Runway was snow covered after the 1250 foot displaced threshold....[I was] slightly high on final, slipped to lose altitude, landed slightly fast, but with no undue concern as there was approximately 3000 feet of remaining runway. On rollout, aircraft started turn to the right. Was unable to stop the turn and [the aircraft] went off the runway. Left main gear was then collapsed, wing went down....Happened in the first and fastest part of roll out. probably a combination of wind, perhaps an uneven spot on the plowed runway and a slightly fast landing....
The pilot further reported that the winds were light and variable and that there were no mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Additionally, according to the Airport Facility Directory, runway 32 was 4200 feet long and 50 feet wide.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5030S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R35776
- Airframe hours
- 3,616
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dorothy Regan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 24, 1994 · 145 hours before
- Departed
- N43 · Easton, PA
- Destination
- LKP · NY
- Airport
- LDP · Lake Placid, runway 32, 4,200 × 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
- 63
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,230 total · 937 in this make and model · 946 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N5030S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.