- Date
- October 15, 1986, 11:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Morgan, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9748DPiper PA-22-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861015048799A
- Case key
- 17143
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Analysis
The student plt had just been endorsed for his first supervised solo flt. He had successfully completed one landing and was attempting his second landing when the accident occurred. The plt said he lost directional control, touched down, and over corrected. The acft went off the side of the rwy 32 and overturned. The plt estimated the winds to be 290 deg at 5 KTS.
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
- N9748D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-6661
- Airframe hours
- 2,143
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dave R. Schreiner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1985 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- Wiggins, CO
- Airport
- 3V4 · Fort Morgan Muni, runway 32, 5,222 × 60 ft, concrete
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 14 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 3 knots, gusting 5
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.