- Date
- July 27, 2001, 21:40 local (Jul 28, 2001, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2125TPiper PA-28
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA Inspector
- FAA report
- 20010727018759A
- Case key
- 52908
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Probable cause
The airplane was struck by deer during landing roll at night. A factor was the dark night.
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 airplane sustained substantial damage when a deer hit the airplane during landing roll. The pilot reported the airplane had just touched down when a deer, running from right to left, struck the airplane near the propeller and the left fuselage/wing area. The airplane tracked down the centerline and then veered off the left side of the runway, ending in a ground loop. The pilot reported it was a dark night.
Factual narrative
On July 27, 2001, at 2140 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28, N2125T, sustained substantial damage when a deer hit the airplane during landing roll. The 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight departed Bowman Field (LOU), Louisville, Kentucky, at 2000, and had flown a visual approach to runway 18 (5,500 feet by 100 feet, asphalt) Clark County Airport (JVY), Jeffersonville, Indiana. The instructor pilot and the dual student pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
The pilot reported the airplane had just touched down when a deer, running from right to left, struck the airplane near the propeller and the left fuselage/wing area. The airplane tracked down the centerline and then veered off the left side of the runway, ending in a ground loop. The pilot reported it was a dark night.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2125T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7135068
- Airframe hours
- 4,646
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Todd House
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 15, 2001 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- LOU · Louisville, KY
- Destination
- JVY · Jeffersonville, IN
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County Airport, runway 18, 5,500 × 100 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
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- March 1, 2001
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 387 total · 200 in this make and model · 300 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 80° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- LOU, 12 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.