- Date
- August 13, 1989, 20:00 local (Aug 14, 1989, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wadsworth, OH
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N16LLPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890813028819A
- Case key
- 14404
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision of the flight by the pilot-in-command (CFI) which resulted in loss of directional control of the aircraft. Contributing factors were: lack of recent experience in the type of operation by the CFI, lack of total experience by the student pilot, and the parked aircraft.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The instructor (CFI) & student plt were on a personal flt in an acft equipped with pedal brakes on the left side only, but the parking brake was accessible to both plts. The CFI allowed the student to occupy the left front seat where he would be responsible for opn of the normal brakes. Drg the apch to lnd, the CFI reminded the student that the brakes were on the student's side. The CFI rprtd 'I flew the airplane at the normal approach speeds and slowed it right down on touchdown so that braking would be little or almost none at all.' The apch was normal until touchdown, 'then the acft started pulling to the left as if someone had locked up the left brake.' The CFI told the student to 'get off the brake' & the student indcd he did not apply braking. The acft slid sideways, the left main gear collapsed & the left wing hit the tire of another acft. An exam of the brakes revealed no sign of a malfunction. The CFI had just rcvd his multi-eng rating on 7/23/89. He had only 40 hrs of multi-eng flt time, of which, 23 hrs were in this make & model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16LL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7250050
- Airframe hours
- 3,400
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dan Weltzien
- Registered owner
- Skypark, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 30, 1989 · 86 hours before
- Departed
- CLE · Cleveland, OH
- Destination
- 15G
- Airport
- 15G · Weltzien Skypark, runway 21, 2,300 × 37 ft, 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
- 20
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 870 total · 23 in this make and model · 770 as pilot in command · 415 in the last 90 days · 137 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CAK, 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.