- Date
- December 26, 1992, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lake In The Hls, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4328DPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921226051879A
- Case key
- 15643
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Probable cause
The student 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
This was the student pilot's second supervised solo. While landing, the airplane ran off the left side of the runway collapsing the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4328D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8416019
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Northwest Flyers
- Registered owner
- Three B'S Aero
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 06C · Schaumburg, IL
- Destination
- 3CK
- Airport
- 3CK · Lake In The Hills, runway 26, 3,788 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RFD, 33 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 N4328D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.