- Date
- March 17, 1993, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Mason, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2440TPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930317005599A
- Case key
- 15686
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command'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 student pilot was on his third solo flight when the accident occurred. He was landing and taking off on runway 27. His flight instructor reported that the winds were approximately 10 to 13 knots direct crosswind to the landing runway. The airplane bounced and exited the runway and impacted a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2440T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-78A0803
- Airframe hours
- 3,544
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Westwind Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Westwind Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 12, 1993 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- 09G · Mason Jewett Field, runway 27, 3,503 × 75 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 5 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAN, 15 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.