- Date
- January 12, 1992, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Griffin, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6101DPiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920112027529A
- Case key
- 8553
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Probable cause
The excessive speed used by the pilot to land on the short private airstrip. A factor was unfavorable wind.
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
The pilot stated that during the landing, a gust of wind caused the aircraft to land with excessive speed. The pilot made an abrupt left turn at the end of the runway, to avoid a fence, and the nose wheel collapsed. The aircraft flipped over onto its back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6101D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-4745
- Airframe hours
- 3,645
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brown, Thomas R.
- Registered owner
- Brown, Thomas R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 11, 1991 · 17 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 31, 1,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,190 total · 790 in this make and model · 1,150 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL, 20 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.