- Date
- December 29, 1985, 16:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Westminster, MD
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N41204Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11199
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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 student pilot was flying in a flight of three returning from having lunch at a nearby airport. The first pilot made a go-around after bouncing during touchdown on the downhill 1830 foot long by 30 foot wide airstrip. He then came aroundand made a successful landing. The student pilot, was observed by both the first and third pilots, to pull up nose high and left wing low on short final. The aircraft then descended to the left and came to rest in the bedroom of a nearby residence. The engine was successfully runup while still attached to the airframe at a nearby facility about a week later. The student pilot claimed that a sudden gust of wind prevented him from lining up the aircraft for landing while on short final and he attempted to perform a go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41204
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7425205
- Airframe hours
- 2,041
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James Lewis Carl
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 1985 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- FDK · Frederick, MD
- Destination
- 2W2 · Westminster, MD
- Airport
- 2W2 · Clearview Airport, runway 31, 1,830 × 30 ft, macadam
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 126 total · 95 in this make and model · 50 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWI, 23 nm away