- Date
- June 12, 1983, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Waukegan, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4824SPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830612026129A
- Case key
- 12187
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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.
Hard landing
Level off - improperCause
Supervision - inadequateCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Analysis
The student was receiving a high performance checkout. During the third landing the acft landed hard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4824S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 321255
- Airframe hours
- 6,586
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E485, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Salata
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 23, 1982 · 203 hours before
- Airport
- UGN · Waukegan Memorial, runway 23, 4,600 × 150 ft, concrete
N4824SRegistered now · Piper PA-32-260Airframe modelPiper PA-32-260Engine modelLycoming 0-540 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 753 total · 6 in this make and model · 729 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORD, 15 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.
Other investigations on N4824S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.