- Date
- October 5, 1988, 18:10 local (Oct 6, 1988, 01:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cashmere, WA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N75107Piper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40948
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Analysis
Plt landed short of hard surface, collapsing lndg gear.
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.
Undershoot
Planned approach - improperCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Complete gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75107
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 347670223
- Airframe hours
- 3,028
- Engine
- Continental TSI0-360-E, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dolphin Leasing Co.
- Registered owner
- Dolsen Leasing Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- YAK · Yakima, WA
- Airport
- 8S2 · Cashmere, runway 25, 1,800 × 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 420 total · 39 in this make and model · 292 as pilot in command · 113 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EAT, 14 nm away