- Date
- March 4, 2023, 14:37 local (20:37 UTC)
- Place
- Thedford, NE
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N131HLPiper PA-46-600TP
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Piper Aircraft, FAA
- FAA report
- 20230304002049A
- Case key
- 106898
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On March 4, 2023, about 1437 central standard time, a Piper PA46-600TP, N131HL, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Thedford, Nebraska. The pilot and passenger were uninjured. The airplane was being operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that during landing, when the nose wheel made contact with the runway, the airplane began to veer right. He attempted to use left rudder and brake to keep the airplane on the runway, but as the airspeed decreased, directional control became harder to maintain and the airplane subsequently departed the right side of the runway. During the runway excursion, the airplane impacted a runway light, spun left and the landing gear collapsed. During a postaccident examination, it was determined that the airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. A detailed examination is pending.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N131HL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-600TP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4698131
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Midwest Partitions Flight Services LLC
- Registered owner
- Midwest Partitions Flight Services LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- TIF · Thomas County, runway 29
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KTIF
- METAR
- KTIF 042035Z AUTO 14005KT 10SM CLR 06/M07 A2998 RMK AO2 T00591070
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.