- Date
- April 26, 1992, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sidney, NE
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3811WPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920426011559A
- Case key
- 15433
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Probable cause
Was an inadvertent stall/mush during landing by the pilot. A factor related to the accident was lack of recent total experience.
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 the airplane stalled on short final and collided with the runway. The hard landing resulted in substantial wing and airframe damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3811W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-741
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wade S. Evans/Stephen M.Miller
- Registered owner
- Wade S. Evans/Stephen M.Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 3V4 · Fort Morgan, CO
- Airport
- SNY · Sidney, runway 12, 6,600 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 250 total · 10 in this make and model · 220 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SNY, 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.