- Date
- October 22, 1992, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Weeping Water, NE
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5592HPiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921022043149A
- Case key
- 15610
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
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 landed with flaps. As the airplane rolled out, the pilot looked down and reached for the manual lever to raise the flaps. When she next looked above the control panel, the airplane was headed right of the runway and downhill.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5592H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-660
- Airframe hours
- 2,767
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pacer Pilots, Inc
- Registered owner
- Pacer Pilots, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 16, 1992 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- 74NE · Omaha, NE
- Destination
- EPG
- Airport
- EPG · Browns, runway 17, 2,200 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 904 total · 14 in this make and model · 832 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LNK, 32 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.