- Date
- September 5, 1992, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Headland, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8098CPiper PA-22T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920905035479A
- Case key
- 8660
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper evaluation of wind conditions and selection of the wrong runway, which resulted in a loss of control during the landing roll. A factor to the accident was a gusting tail 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 and a passenger, also a pilot, were conducting touch and go landings to runway 27. On the third landing roll, the pilot encountered a wind gust and the airplane started a left drift off the runway; the pilot lost control of the airplane. The passenger attempted to correct the drift, but he also failed. The airplane continued off the runway and collided with a dirt bank. The prevailing wind at a nearby airport was out of the east gusting to 15 knots. No mechanical problems were reported by the pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8098C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-2244
- Airframe hours
- 2,400
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D-2, 135 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wilkes,Jay W.
- Registered owner
- Wilkes,Jay W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 1992 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 0J6
- Destination
- 0J6
- Airport
- 0J6 · Headland Municipal, runway 27, 3,000 × 50 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 204 total · 1 in this make and model · 128 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DHN, 30 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.