- Date
- July 27, 1993, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Crookston, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N172NDPiper PA-28
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930727025759A
- Case key
- 15763
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's delayed in-flight decision. A factor to the accident is the pilot in command's failure to attain a proper touchdown point.
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 stated that after flaring the aircraft for a grass strip landing the airplane 'didn't touch down for a long time.' The other pilot aboard told the pilot to 'go around,' and the pilot added power. According to the pilot, the aircraft did not climb immediately, and 'hit the taxiway for runway 13-31. The aircraft ground looped and came to rest in a ditch alongside runway 13-31.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N172ND
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2837007
- Airframe hours
- 4,220
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 180 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
- Unknown · July 21, 1993 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- GFK · Grand Forks, ND
- Airport
- CKN · Kirkwood Field, runway 24, 2,089 × 202 ft, grass/turf
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 259 total · 199 in this make and model · 152 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 12 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CKN, 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.