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Event NYC89LA067

1989-01-14 TURNERS FALLS, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1057X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1975 · 14 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01AAA

Registrant of record

WEISENBERGER THOMAS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

LOSS OF CONTROL DURING LANDING ROLL DUE TO ICE ON THE RUNWAY, AND COLLISION WITH A SNOW BANK OFF THE RUNWAY WHICH SHEARED THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR.

Factual narrative

DURING LANDING AT MT. SNOW, VERMONT, THE AIRPLANE SLID ON RUNWAY ICE AND THE PILOT INITIATED A GO AROUND. DURING THE GO AROUND THE AIRPLANE STRUCK A SNOW BANK AND SHEARED OFF THE LEFT MAIN GEAR. WHEN AIRBORNE THE PILOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND WAS VECTORED TO ANOTHER AIRPORT WHERE HE MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AND DAMAGED THE LEFT WING. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1989_NYC89LA067.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (loss of control). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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