- Date
- May 15, 1992, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9270JPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920515021519A
- Case key
- 15447
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot in command to maintain control of the airplane during a downwind landing.
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 of the accident airplane had been issued wind information of 090 degrees at 11 knots and cleared to land on runway 14 (a crosswind component 50 degrees left of the nose). The pilot requested runway 20. The controller replied winds were 100 degrees at 11 knots (a quartering tailwind) and cleared the pilot to land on runway 20. The pilot reported a gust of wind lifted the left wing as the airplane was being flared for landing. The right wing and propeller struck the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9270J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-3347
- Airframe hours
- 4,029
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald L. & Donna F. Davis
- Registered owner
- Donald L. & Donna F. Davis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 10, 1992 · 75 hours before
- Departed
- BVO · Bartlesville, OK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SGF · Springfield Regional, runway 2, 7,003 × 150 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 49 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SGF, 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.
Other investigations on N9270J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.