- Date
- June 10, 1988, 17:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Mccormick, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2609GPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880610019789A
- Case key
- 7773
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was on her second solo cross country flight. She had deptd donaldson center near greenville, SC and had flown to athens, ga where she had completed a touch and go landing. She then proceeded to Mccormick, SC and flew over the airport to check the windsock. It was favoring rwy 36. When she was on either base or final she stated that the wind was 'switching around'. She flew a normal final using the slip method to correct for drift. At touchdown she stated that the airplane touched down hard on all three wheels and the next thing she knew the airplane had come to stop on its nose. The student had about 15 hours in the airplane at the time, of which 5 hours were solo.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2609G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3879A0568
- Airframe hours
- 2,894
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Int'L Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Barend R. Devlaming
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1988
- Departed
- AHN · Athens, GA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SC41 · Mccormick Co., runway 36, 3,600 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 15 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AGS, 35 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.