- Date
- September 8, 1992, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Harvard, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5029ZPiper PA-22-108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920908035589A
- Case key
- 15539
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot in command to align the accident airplane with the centerline of the runway during 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 accident airplane nosed over in soft rough terrain during a landing roll. The pilot described how he elected to land on the left side of the sod runway. During the landing roll the airplane encountered wet, soft terrain and the airplane swerved to the left and nosed over. In a telephone interview the pilot stated high grass on the runway surface obscured the soft terrain. He also said landing directly into the setting sun restricted his vision.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5029Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-8647
- Airframe hours
- 1,676
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1B, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Martin Moran
- Registered owner
- David E. Ostergaard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 1992 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- 10C · Wonder Lake, IL
- Airport
- 0C0 · Dacy, runway 27, 3,500 × 105 ft, grass/turf
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 70 in this make and model · 110 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JVL, 20 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.