- Date
- September 28, 2022, 19:00 local (Sep 29, 2022, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shell Lake, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5152SPiper PA-28-180
- Defining event
- Landing: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220928017279A
- Case key
- 106225
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
A collision with a deer during landing, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing.
Findings · 3
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 landing flare at night, the airplane’s left wing stuck a deer that was on the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5152S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7105006
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 5,942.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Trek North, doing business as Air Trek North
- Registered owner
- Harrier Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 10, 2022
- Departed
- 1H9 · Spooner, WI
- Destination
- KSSQ · Shell Lake, WI
- Airport
- KSSQ · Shell Lake Municipal, runway 14, 3,711 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B
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
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 24, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 648 total · 564 in this make and model · 593 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.45 inHg
- Observed at
- KRZN, 19 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRZN 290015Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 09/04 A3044 RMK AO2 T00900044=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 21, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 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.