- Date
- November 11, 1990, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8733EPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901111049769A
- Case key
- 23289
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgment of airplane attitude, airspeed and distance while on final approach. A factor was the instructor pilot's inadequate supervision.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
A foreign pilot undergoing flight training to become a certified flight instructor, and his instructor pilot, were on a local training flight to review basic airwork and practice takeoffs and landing at a local airport. While on final approach to a practice short field landing, the pilot allowed the airspeed to dissipate and the rate of descent to become excessive, resulting in landing short of the runway landing threshold. The right main landing gear was torn off the aircraft on initial contact. The aircraft slid off the runway, coming to a stop in the grass adjacent to the runway. Both pilots escaped injuries despite the substantial damage incurred by the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8733E
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7635207
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pegasus Flight Center, Inc.
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- FWS · Spinks, runway 17, 6,002 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 20
- Certificates
- Foreign, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 272 total · 14 in this make and model · 146 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- FTW, 17 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.