- Date
- September 7, 1991, 08:20 local (13:20 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11BAPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910907038809A
- Case key
- 15183
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of the landing flare and not maintaining directional control during a landing touchdown and roll. A factor was the pilot's lack of total expereince.
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 had been practicing takeoffs and landing. A 30 degree, left crosswind of 5 to 10 knots existed. While establishing a landing touchdown attitude, the airplane began to yaw left and balloon at the same time. He stated he added power and left aileron/rudder at the same time. The airplane touched down on the left side of the runway and departed the runway's left side, striking the edges of another taxiway and runway as well as taxiway and runway lights.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11BA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-78A0317
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bakers Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Bakers Flying Service
- Airport
- MKC · Kansas City Downtown, runway 19, 7,001 × 150 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 28 total · 10 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MKC, 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.