- Date
- January 25, 1993, 16:54 local (22:54 UTC)
- Place
- Wichita, KS
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N444TDPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930125000879A
- Case key
- 15585
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Probable cause
An improper use of the flight controls by the pilot-in-command.
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 performed a go around maneuver just prior to touchdown. Shortly after initiating the go around the airplane performed what witnesses described as, abrupt, steep turns to the crosswind and downwind legs in the traffic pattern. Witnesses reported the airplane was approximately 300 to 400 feet above the ground on the downwind leg when it 'wobbled' during an abrupt left turn to the traffic pattern's base leg. According to a witness, the airplane rolled over and performed a one turn spin before colliding with the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N444TD
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-4549
- Airframe hours
- 1,204
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Midwest Executive Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Midwest Executive Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 8, 1993 · 34 hours before
- Departed
- OJC · Olathe, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 3KM · Col. James Jabara, runway 18, 5,000 × 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,089 total · 11 in this make and model · 615 as pilot in command · 76 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- 3KM, 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.