- Date
- May 8, 1988, 08:15 local (13:15 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N43DRPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880508015219A
- Case key
- 14073
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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
Supervision - inadequateCause
Lack of total experience in type operationFactor
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - overload
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43DR
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A0016
- Airframe hours
- 1,760
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- All-Safe Flight Corporation
- Registered owner
- All-Safe Flight Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 6, 1988 · 8 hours before
- Destination
- IN
- Airport
- MQJ · Mr. Comfort, runway 16, 3,901 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 381 total · 88 in this make and model · 320 as pilot in command · 61 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 19 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 N43DR · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
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