- Date
- January 17, 2002, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bessemer, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6910FPiper PA-28-151
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Birmingham FSDO
- FAA report
- 20020117001669A
- Case key
- 54065
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Probable cause
On ground collision with an animal during landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
A Piper PA-28-151, collided with a deer, while conducting touch and go landings. During the instructional flight a deer ran across the runway from the right side of the airplane. The airplane collided with the deer on the leading edge of the right wing.
Factual narrative
On January 17, 2002, at 0830 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-28-151, N6910F, registered to C&S Aviation Inc. and operated Bessemer Aviation under Title 14 CFR part 91, collided with a deer, during a landing roll at Bessemer Airport, Bessemer, Alabama. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of accident and no flight plan was filed. The Certified Flight Instructor and his student did not receive any injuries. The airplane was substantially damaged. The flight departed from Bessemer, Alabama, at 0815.
According to the Certified Flight Instructor while conducting touch and go landings to runway 23 at Bessemer Airport, he heard his student yell out "deer". At this time he felt a impact on the right side of the airplane. The airplane swerved to the right and came to a stop partially off the runway. The CFI and his student determined that they had stuck the deer that ran across the runway.
Examination of the airplane revealed, a one foot dent on the leading edge of the right wing and buckling of the right aileron. There were no other reports of deer activity prior to the collision.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6910F
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-151
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7715187
- Airframe hours
- 6,477
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bessemer Aviation, doing business as Bessemer Aviation
- Registered owner
- C & S Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 30, 2001 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- EKY · Bessemer, AL
- Airport
- EKY · Bessemer, runway 23, 5,700 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- October 3, 2001
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 570 total · 188 in this make and model · 370 as pilot in command · 166 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 45
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 0° at 0 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 29, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 460 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.