- Date
- January 1, 1991, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pinconning, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5063TPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910101000139A
- Case key
- 14982
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Probable cause
Inadequate airspeed, wind shear and a stall.
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 pilot said that during the landing approach, at about 50 feet AGL and 1/8 mile from the approach end of the sod strip, the aircraft lost lift and landed hard causing substantial damage. He felt a possible wind shear contributed to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5063T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7225341
- Airframe hours
- 3,006
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Byrne
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 1, 1990 · 6 hours before
- Airport
- 52I · Pinconning, runway 27, 2,500 × 100 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 565 total · 55 in this make and model · 455 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 240° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N5063T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.