- Date
- March 17, 1992, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5276ZPiper PA-22-108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920317006619A
- Case key
- 11773
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The certificated flight instructor's (cfi's) inadequate supervision during the simulated emergency landing. Soft terrain in the touchdown area was a related factor.
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
During a simulated engine out forced landing, the airplane touched down approximately 150 feet short of runway 10 at kentmorr airpark airport, near Stevensville, Maryland. The nose gear encountered soft grassy terrain, sinking approximately four to five inches in the ground. The airplane slid approximately 70 feet, nosed over, and slid another 30 feet. The airplane came to rest, inverted, approximately 50 feet from the beginning of the intended runway. The CFI stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions prior to the touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5276Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-8969
- Airframe hours
- 8,727
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1B, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Annapolis Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Annapolis Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 11, 1992
- Departed
- ANP · Edgewater, MD
- Airport
- 3W3 · Kentmoor Airpark, runway 1, 2,050 × 75 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 950 total · 500 in this make and model · 880 as pilot in command · 213 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWI, 1 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.
Other investigations on N5276Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.