- Date
- January 14, 1984, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Waukegan, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23781Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840114000839A
- Case key
- 12527
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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
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
The student plt said he lost too much airspeed during a no power approach and made a hard landing. After a bounce, the acft hit on the nose gear and it collapsed. The acft skidded off the rwy into a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23781
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-7911052
- Airframe hours
- 1,863
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Air Chicagoland, Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Airport
- UGN · Wauegan Memorial, runway 32, 3,750 × 75 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 24 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.