- Date
- June 19, 1982, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dodgeville, WI
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95464Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 19, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820619023389A
- Case key
- 70490
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was on a cross-country flight and had made four landings that day. After visually sighting Dodgeville, the pilot cancelled her VFR flight plan with the flight service station. She reported that nobody answered her numerous calls on UNICOM and she could not see a windsock on the field. The pilot made three approaches to runway 12. On the third approach, she realized she had touched down long and fast and attempted to go around. The aircraft went off the left side of the runway, went down a slope, and the nose gear failed. A witness reported that the aircraft had landed with a quartering tail wind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95464
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-25974
- Airframe hours
- 3,497
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sandra J. Pekala
- Registered owner
- William R. Thomas
- Departed
- Boscobel, WI
- Destination
- Dodgeville, WI
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 55C · Dodgeville Municipal, runway 12, 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 11 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 156 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSN, 40 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.