Piper PA-24-180 N7014P

Summary

On 26 July 1997 at about 14:45 local time, a Piper PA-24-180 registered N7014P was involved in an accident near Arthur City, Texas, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

26 July 1997 at 14:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Arthur City, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Parson Field (NONE)

Coordinates

33.8590, -95.6496

Aircraft

Piper PA-24-180

Registration

N7014P

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

FTW97LA287

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to abort the landing. Factors were the wet, grass runway.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot stated that on short final the airplane was 'a little fast and [he] thought about going around,' but committed to landing. The pilot applied the brakes immediately upon landing. The grass was wet and the airplane was not going to stop before the end of the runway. The pilot reported that he made a 90-degree left turn, towards an open field, approximately 60 yards from the departure end of the runway, to avoid a large ditch located just off the departure end of the runway. The airplane contacted a tree with the right wing tip and rolled through a barbed wire fence. The airplane's left wing was resting on a fence post when the left wheel dropped into a hole which 'buckled the main spar at the outboard skin lap.'

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.