- Date
- November 18, 2013, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Burwell, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30260Piper PA 28-181
- Defining event
- Landing: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 13, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20131118023249A
- Case key
- 88449
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Probable cause
An inadvertent collision with a deer during landing.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the flare for landing, a deer ran towards the airplane from his left side. He tried to raise the left wing to clear the deer. The left main landing gear hit the deer and the gear separated from the wing. The airplane subsequently skidded to a stop. The spar that the landing gear separated from sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the flare for landing, a deer ran towards the airplane from his left side. He tried to raise the left wing to clear the deer. The left main landing gear hit the deer and the gear separated from the wing. The airplane subsequently skidded to a stop. The spar that the landing gear separated from sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30260
- Reported as
- Piper PA 28-181 (181)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7890452
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 9,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pilot
- Registered owner
- Pilot
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 23, 2013
- Departed
- BBW · Broken Bow, NE
- Destination
- BUB · Burwell, NE
- Airport
- BUB · Cram Field, runway 15, 3,900 × 60 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 100 total · 80 in this make and model · 69 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KODX, 13 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 5, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.