- Date
- August 11, 1990, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Greenwood, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8085HPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14749
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot misjudged the landing flare and the airplane stalled and landed hard.
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Flare - excessiveCause
Stall/mush - inadvertent
Hard landing
Main gear collapsed
Analysis
During landing, the airplane was flared too high. The airplane stalled 8 to 10 feet above the ground and collided with the runway. The left main landing gear collapsed as the airplane taxied off the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8085H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8016067
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Greenwood Flight Center, Inc.
- Airport
- 5I1 · Greenwood Municipal Arprt, runway 18, 3,672 × 50 ft, asphalt
N8085HRegistration cancelled Aug 22, 2013 · Piper PA-28-161Airframe modelPiper PA-28-161Engine modelLycoming 0-320 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 45 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 11 nm away