- Date
- November 11, 1989, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mcleansboro, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3916WPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891111044989A
- Case key
- 14591
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain control of the aircraft while recovering from a bounced landing.
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.
Analysis
While attempting to recover from a bounced landing, the pilot lost directional control of the airplane. The airplane then stalled and bounced again, collapsing the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3916W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-919
- Airframe hours
- 2,493
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Spiritaire Aircraft Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 19, 1989 · 179 hours before
- Departed
- H96 · Benton, IL
- Airport
- 3K9 · Mcleansboro, runway 18, 1,600 × 60 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 296 total · 88 in this make and model · 227 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 37 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MWA, 23 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 N3916W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.