- Date
- July 16, 1992, 15:17 local (19:17 UTC)
- Place
- Dayton, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8432RPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920716025749A
- Case key
- 11822
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Probable cause
An encounter with a strong wind gust which resulted in loss of control and nose over.
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 instructor and student were taxiing after landing when they encountered a wind gust, and the airplane nosed over. The weather at the time included thunderstorms and winds at 28 knots gusting to 57 knots. The weather had changed significantly from 5 minutes earlier when the winds were 11 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8432R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8116311
- Airframe hours
- 1,723
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D36, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wright Patterson Afb Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Wright Patterson Afb Aero Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 28, 1992 · 77 hours before
- Airport
- Wright Patterson
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
- 72
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,620 total · 1,397 in this make and model · 3,206 as pilot in command · 59 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 28 knots, gusting 57
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FFO, 999 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.