- Date
- January 28, 1978
- Place
- Plaquemine, LA · PLAQUEMINE, LA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N56373Piper PA-28R
- Status
- Completed · report February 22, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780128000769A
- Case key
- 143598
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0117 78/1/28 PLAQUEMINE,LA PIPER PA-28R CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 51, 1279 TIME - 1935 N56373 PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 693 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION BATON ROUGE,LA PLAQUEMINE,LA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56373
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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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 N56373 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB MKC82FA161Accident · 4 fatalField investigationFinal reportMediapolis, IADuring the 1725 CDT wx briefing the plt was informed that the Kansas city area would be 1600 ft broken, occassional 800 ft broken, 3/4 mi visibility with thunderstorms & moderate rain with strong surface winds about 35K. The forecast was valid to 2200 CDT.…NTSB CHI79DA074Accident · No injuriesClosedMoline, IL