- Date
- August 18, 1990, 19:50 local (Aug 19, 1990, 00:50 UTC)
- Place
- Roseville, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2731RPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900818034119A
- Case key
- 14755
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Probable cause
Misjudged flare for landing, an improper recovery from a bounced landing, and his failure to maintain directional control.
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
During landing on a sod runway the pilot made a hard landing. Upon ground contact the airplane bounced back into the air. During this process the airplane became misaligned with the runway, landed once again, and contacted mature corn with its wingtip. The resulting action swerved the airplane into the corn. The airplane's landing gear collapsed and its wing and fuselage skin received numerous wrinkles.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2731R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-35273
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C-L6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Raymond T. Huston
- Airport
- 3IS2 · Earp Air Strip, runway 27, 2,200 × 144 ft, grass/turf
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 485 total · 86 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.