- Date
- October 23, 1985, 16:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Toronto, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6859PPiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13372
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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 - misjudgedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Lack of total experienceFactor
Loss of control - in flight
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
The acft touched down hard and bounced during the student plts second solo landing of the day. Recovery was made by initiating a go around. The acft touched down hard and bounced again on the third landing. Directional control of the acft was lost and it veered left striking trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6859P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-4158
- Airframe hours
- 3,250
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- L.E. Dew
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1985 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- 1G8 · Toronto, OH
- Airport
- 1G8 · Dyer, runway 16, 2,230 × 230 ft, grass/turf
N6859PRegistered now · Piper PA-24-180Airframe modelPiper PA-24-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 29 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIT, 18 nm away