- Date
- May 30, 1970
- Place
- Grandville, MI · GRANDVILLE, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8211NPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 123417
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2295 70/5/30 GRANDVILLE,MICH PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 27, 41 TOTAL TIME - 1545 N8211N PX- 0 0 1 SOLO HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - WELLER DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GRAND RAPIDS,MICH LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS LANDING: GO-AROUND PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PILOT IN COMMAND - ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL PILOT IN COMMAND - MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND REMARKS- UNAUTH PAX STOP,GRASS STRIP,DEPD WITH PAX.HIT FENCE 2ND LDG ATMT,NO FLAP APCHS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8211N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Weller
N8211NRegistration cancelled May 14, 2013 · Piper PA-28-140Airframe modelPiper PA-28-140Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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.
Other investigations on N8211N · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.