- Date
- January 5, 1990, 14:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Steubenville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N557PAPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900105003559A
- Case key
- 14618
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper landing flare.
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
The nineteen-hour student pilot was practicing touch-and-gos when the airplane ballooned and returned to the runway nosedown. The nosegear collapsed and the plane slid along the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N557PA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 287225479
- Airframe hours
- 4,039
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hunt, David D
- Registered owner
- David O Hunt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 3, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- 2G2 · Jefferson County, runway 31, 3,310 × 35 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 20 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIT, 24 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.