- Date
- March 19, 2023, 12:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Maple Lake, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9088DPiper PA-28-161
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230319007069A
- Case key
- 106920
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing with a gusting crosswind.
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 student pilot reported that during landing the airplane “dipped steeply to the right” due to a gusting wind. The student pilot corrected for the dip by applying left aileron and power before touching down on the ice-covered runway. After touchdown, the airplane skidded to the left with the nose pointed to the right and departed the runway. Upon departing the runway, the nose landing gear dug into the snow which resulted in substantial damage to the engine mount. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the student pilot was landing with an 80° right crosswind at 9 knots gusting to 14 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9088D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8616049
- Built
- 1986
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Metro Aircraft Co
- Registered owner
- Metro Aircraft Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- FCM · Eden Prairie, MN
- Destination
- MGG · Maple Lake, MN
- Airport
- MGG · Maple Lake Muni-Bill Mavencamp Sr Fld, runway 10, 2,796 × 60 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
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 74 total · 74 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KMGG
- METAR
- METAR KMGG 191715Z AUTO 18009G14KT 10SM CLR M04/M14 A3009 RMK AO2 T10401141=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 27, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 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.