- Date
- April 5, 1989, 05:40 local (11:40 UTC)
- Place
- Cheyenne, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N83864Piper PA-34-220T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890405006149A
- Case key
- 17692
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot-in-command to properly recover from a bounced landing.
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 airplane was being operated under 14 CFR 135 on a night cargo flt. The plt approached the arpt from the south and decided to land on runway 26. He activated the plt controlled runway lights to the highest intensity. The plt retarded the throttles over the runway and the airplane bounced when it touched down. The airplane bounced a second time and two of the three landing gear collapsed on touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83864
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-220T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 348133091
- Airframe hours
- 2,955
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360B, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Sky Harbor Air Svc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 24, 1989 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Destination
- CYS
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- CYS · Cheyenne Municipal, runway 26, 9,200 × 150 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,513 total · 142 in this make and model · 1,114 as pilot in command · 170 in the last 90 days · 82 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots, gusting 1
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CYS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.