- Date
- February 2, 1987, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- West Point, VA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N33399Piper PA-28R-200R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11307
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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
After making a low pass over the uncontrolled airport the CFI decided to let the student pilot make a touch and go landing on runway 27 at West Point municipal airport. West Point, Virginia. The maneuver was successfully completed and the aircraft came around in the pattern for another landing. During the second landing the left main gear contacted a snow bank that was on the approach end of the runway and swerved off the left side of it. As the aircraft skidded the right gear collapsed and the right wing contacted the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33399
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200R (PA-28R-200)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7535142
- Airframe hours
- 3,449
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Langley Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Peck And Hurb Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 1986 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- W97 · Langley, VA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- W97 · West Point Municipal, runway 27, 3,750 × 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,350 total · 47 in this make and model · 100 in the last 90 days · 32 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PHF, 27 nm away