- Date
- July 19, 1987, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Foley, AL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4808TPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7488
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt failed to maintain directional control during a crosswind ldg on rwy 36. The airplane drifted to the left of the runway and subsequently impacted trees. The student plt was on his second unsupervised solo flight. He reported that he did not get a weather briefing prior to departing the arpt on a local flt about 1 hr before. He estimated the the winds were from the NE at 15 gusting to 20 KTS at the time of the accident. The winds at npa, located 20 miles ese, were reported at 1150 CDT to be from 080 deg at 14 gusting to 18 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4808T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 287225210
- Airframe hours
- 5,019
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Floyd D. Painter
- Registered owner
- Floyd D Painter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 7, 1987
- Airport
- 5R4 · Foley Muncicipal, runway 36, 3,700 × 75 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 14 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NPA, 20 nm away