- Date
- November 29, 1992, 15:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15262Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921129048239A
- Case key
- 11890
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision by the instructor, and his delay in initiating a go around.
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 dual student had completed one full stop landing before departing the pattern enroute to his destination to practice some touch and go landings. He successfully accomplished one go around, and one touch and go landing; however, on his third landing as he was on final approach to runway 22, he was advised by the tower controller to make a full stop landing due to pattern saturation. As he was in the flare/touchdown, the nose of the airplane was slightly to the right and not aligned with the runway. The instructor told the student to make a correction; the student overcorrected which resulted in the airplane veering off to the left of the runway. The instructor then took the controls and initiated a go around, but the airplane struck trees, rotated 90 degrees, and fell to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15262
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7325028
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Century Air Flight Academy
- Registered owner
- Century Air Flight Academy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 21, 1992
- Departed
- MMU · Morristown, NJ
- Airport
- CDW · Essex County, runway 22, 4,553 × 80 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,370 total · 1,300 in this make and model · 2,215 as pilot in command · 205 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.