- Date
- August 18, 1990, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8335RPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900818034059A
- Case key
- 23170
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Probable cause
Student pilot's failure to execute a go-around in a timely manner.
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 student pilot aborted his first attempt at landing on the private strip due to the airplane having developed a sink rate over a ravine located just short of the approach end of the runway. The same situation developed on the second approach, however, the pilot delayed in initiating the go-around and the landing gear struck some brush and the airplane flipped over short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8335R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-22207
- Airframe hours
- 4,662
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Steele, Gary & Nancy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 21, 1989 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- SIG · Siloah Springs, OK
- Airport
- NONE · Cookson Hills, runway 18, 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 16 in this make and model · 24 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 72 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.