- Date
- September 17, 1991, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Atchison, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4795TPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910917045649A
- Case key
- 15194
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Probable cause
Delayed remedial action by the pilot in command. Factors related to the accident are a misjudged approach by the pilot in command, and complacency on the part of the FAA inspector.
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
Pilot was on CFI checkride with FAA inspector. Inspector retarded throttle to idle and asked pilot to demonstrate and describe an emergency landing. Pilot executed the approach to a runway at a nearby airport, and said '...after turning final, it looked like we may not make the runway without adding power.' Pilot added power when the aircraft was 50 to 75 feet above ground level. Aircraft made hard landing 50 feet short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4795T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7235110
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C2C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Crouch Avaition, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MCI · Kansas City, MO
- Airport
- K59 · Amelia Earhart, runway 16, 3,000 × 48 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 275 total · 45 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °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.