- Date
- July 26, 1992, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Spencerport, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4389XPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920726027479A
- Case key
- 11832
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate flare which resulted in a hard landing.
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 was landing on runway 10 when according to the pilot, the approach seemed normal; however, the airplane sank so rapidly that he was unable to react in time. The airplane landed hard collapsing the main gear and slid to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4389X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7635034
- Airframe hours
- 3,173
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-CIC, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Artisan Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Artisan Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1992 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- ROC · Rochester, NY
- Airport
- D91 · Spencerport Airpark, runway 1, 2,450 × 90 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 290 total · 36 in this make and model · 241 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,300 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ROC, 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.