- Date
- April 24, 1991, 19:00 local (Apr 25, 1991, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hibbing, MN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95406Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910424012329A
- Case key
- 15053
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare of the airplane and the cfi's failure to maintain directional control during the recovery. A factor was the soft terrain.
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 student pilot was performing the touch and go landing when the accident occurred. The CFI stated the student flared the airplane late, it bounced on the runway and became airborne. The CFI attempted to recover; however, the airplane settled into muddy terrain off the side of the runway where the nose gear collapsed and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95406
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-24923
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Wm. & Audrey Svigel
- Registered owner
- Wm. & Audrey Svigel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 30, 1990 · 40 hours before
- Airport
- HIB · Hibbing-Chisholm, runway 22, 3,075 × 75 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 325 total · 10 in this make and model · 199 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- HIB, 1 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.