- Date
- July 7, 1992, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Harvard, IL
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8056PPiper PA-32-301
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920707026299A
- Case key
- 15491
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to understand wind information as presented by the windsock, selecting the wrong runway for landing, and delaying the aborted 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 misinterpreted the wind direction when he looked at the wind sock prior to departing the airport. After a downwind takeoff and a short duration local flight the pilot returned to the airport and landed downwind. When the airplane failed to decelerate after touching down he attempted a balked landing and collided with a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8056P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-8206017
- Airframe hours
- 2,153
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick Afb Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Patrick Afb Aero Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 13, 1992 · 73 hours before
- Airport
- 0C0 · Dacy, runway 33, 2,760 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,050 total · 55 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 46 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DPA, 35 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.