CHI93LA290 · Piper PA-28
Island Aviation Piper PA-28 · Accident: overrun during landing
From 2G5 · Grosse Ile, MI to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI93LA290
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA-28
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N40023
- Operator
- Island Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 2G5 · Grosse Ile, MITo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Overrun
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Go-around, not performed
- Pilot in command › Proper glidepath, not attained
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Troy, MI, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT REPORTED HIS FINAL APPROACH TO RUNWAY 09 AS 'SLIGHTLY HIGH,' AND SAID HE CONSIDERED A GO-AROUND, BUT DECIDED TO LAND INSTEAD. UPON FLARING, ABOVE THE NUMBERS ON THE RUNWAY, THE AIRCRAFT 'BALLOONED UP.' THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE 'BLED OFF THE AIRSPEED AND TOUCHED DOWN APPROXIMATELY 600 FEET DOWN (THE RUNWAY).' HE ALSO REPORTED THE BRAKES WERE INEFFECTIVE IN STOPPING THE AIRCRAFT. THE AIRCRAFT ROLLED OFF THE RUNWAY INTO A PARKING LOT AND COLLIDED WITH A PARKED VAN.
Probable cause
IS THE PILOT NOT ATTAINING THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT, NOT FLYING A PROPER GLIDEPATH, AND NOT PERFORMING A GO AROUND.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI93LA290
- Event ID
- 20001211X12870
- Case number
- CHI93LA290
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-07-28.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ccbb7bd1e5cc9e4b67318e765758b1bb9a7eaf49395c56fe0dc2af8bcf1274c0; retrieved 2026-09-23T01:49:18.702Z.