- Date
- December 7, 1991, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4302HPiper PA-15
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 15360
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Probable cause
Remedial action was not performed by the cfi/pic. A factor related to the accident was directional control was not maintained by the student pilot.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedFactor
Remedial action - not performedCause
Nose over
Analysis
The CFI pilot said that while teaching emergency landing procedures, on a sod strip, the student plt lost directional control and veered off the runway and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4302H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-15
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15-102
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Beaver, Allyn M.
- Departed
- I21 · Mccordsville, IN
- Airport
- I21 · Brookside, runway 24, 3,200 × 90 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,940 total · 6 in this make and model · 1,829 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 65 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- IND, 20 nm away