Aviation Crash Map

Piper PA-24-250 N5821P

21 April 1987 · Salisbury, Maryland, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 21 April 1987 at about 00:47 local time, a Piper PA-24-250 registered N5821P, operated by David Collin, was involved in an accident near Salisbury, Maryland, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 00:47
Classification
Accident
Location
Salisbury, Maryland, United States
Nearest airport
Salisbury-Wicomico County (SBY)
Coordinates
38.3798, -75.6398
Aircraft
Piper PA-24-250
Registration
N5821P
Category
Airplane
Engines
1
Operator
David Collin
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Personal
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Hilton Head → Unknown
Aircraft damage
Destroyed
Weather
IMC
Light
Night/Dark
NTSB number
BFO87FA031

People

1 person died.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
1 1 0 0 0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ON A FLT FROM HILTON HEAD, SC TO WOODSTOWN, NJ, THE PLT ENCTRD HEADWINDS & DIVERTED TO SALISBURY, MD, A LESS DISTANT ARPT. DRG ARRIVAL AT 1944, HE WAS PROVIDED WX INFO CONCERNING A LOW CEILING & VISIBILITY. AT 1955, HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO HOLD UPON REACHING A CLNC LIMIT & WAS ADZD TO EXPECT FURTHER CLNC AT 2030. THE PLT HAD DIFFICULTY GETTING ESTABLISHEDON THE VOR RWY 5 APCH & WAS VECTORED ON FINAL APCH. AT 2046:53, ABOUT 2 MIN AFTER BEING ESTABLISHED ON THE APCH, THE PLT STATED THE ACFT RAN OUT OF FUEL & DECLARED AN EMERG. DRG AN EMERG LANDING, ABOUT 5 MI SW OF THE ARPT, THE ACFT CRASHED ON WOODED TERRAIN AFTER BEING AIRBORNE APRX 4.3 HRS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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