- Date
- April 5, 1993, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Northwood, ND
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N108NDPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 18, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930405008009A
- Case key
- 15694
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight.
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 instructor and student were practicing crosswind landings. During the landing flare, the airplane drifted significantly off centerline and the instructor took control. He initiated a go-around, but the airplane was unable to climb and settled into an adjacent field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N108ND
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2841328
- Airframe hours
- 2,179
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- University Of North Dakota
- Registered owner
- University Of North Dakota
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 16, 1993 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- GFK · Grand Forks, ND
- Airport
- 3ND0 · Northwood, runway 8, 2,300 × 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 736 total · 650 in this make and model · 547 as pilot in command · 222 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 15 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFK, 18 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.