Piper PA-31-310 Navajo crash, Sep 20, 2000, Jeffersonvill...
Piper PA-31-310 Navajo accident on September 20, 2000 near Jeffersonville-Clark County, Indiana, United States with no fatalities. Cause: The pilot's...
- Date: September 20, 2000
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 Navajo
- Location: Jeffersonville-Clark County, Indiana, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The pilot's inadequate braking and inability to stop on the runway, with hydroplaning on a wet runway, tailwind, trees and a ravine as contributing factors.
A Piper Navajo on an executive flight from Elizabethtown landed about 700 feet past the threshold at Clark County Airport in wet conditions with a strong tailwind reported. The brakes had no effect, the aircraft ran off the end, and it turned right to avoid trees before a drainage ditch stopped it. The pilot was uninjured.