- Date
- January 8, 2000, 18:30 local (Jan 9, 2000, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pueblo, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2292MPiper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000108006279A
- Case key
- 48437
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Collision with a deer during landing roll. Factors were a dark night and lack of wildlife control devices on the airport.
Analysis
While conducting a touch-and-go landing on a dark night, the aircraft struck a deer during landing roll. The aircraft right wing leading edge and right main landing gear sustained damage. The airport was equipped with security perimeter fencing but did not have any equipment installed to specifically aid in wildlife control.
Factual narrative
On January 8, 2000, at 1830 mountain standard time, a Piper PA-28R-201, N2292M, collided with a deer during landing roll at Pueblo Memorial Airport, Pueblo, Colorado. The aircraft sustained substantial damage and the private pilot was not injured. Dark night visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this cross-country flight operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from Colorado Springs, Colorado, at 1800.
According to the pilot, he was conducting a touch-and-go landing. He was on roll out and had raised the flaps for takeoff when he heard a noise and felt a "hard bump." He said he notified the tower that "something was wrong and there may be broken parts on the runway." He said he noted that right brake did not work, then taxied to the ramp and inspected the aircraft. Inspection revealed damage to the inboard 3 feet of the leading edge of the right wing, and damage to the right main landing gear.
Pueblo Memorial Airport has perimeter security fencing but does not have any specific equipment installed for wildlife 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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2292M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7837081
- Airframe hours
- 7,200
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Peterson Afb Flying Club, doing business as Rocky Mountain Flight Training
- Registered owner
- Dale Schgmlcwich
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 13, 1999 · 86 hours before
- Departed
- COS · Colo Springs, CO
- Destination
- PUB
- Airport
- PUB · Pueblo Memorial, runway 8L, 10,496 × 150 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 520 total · 16 in this make and model · 500 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PUB, 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.
Other investigations on N2292M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.