- Date
- March 5, 1991, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Leander, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9190APiper PA-32RT-300T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910305004159A
- Case key
- 23308
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the final approach.
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 commercial pilot, who was also a flight instructor, stated that he encountered wind shear while on short final to runway 15 and that the airplane developed an excessive sink rate. He initiated a go-around, but aborted it when it became obvious that the airplane was going to impact the runway. After initial touchdown, the airplane bounced and drifted left. The second touchdown point was off the left side of the runway and the left wing subsequently struck a fence post. The pilot reported the winds as being from the south-southwest at 15 knots, gusting to 25 knots. The official weather reporting station, 15 miles south of the accident site, reported the winds as being from 150 degrees at 5 knots. No convective activity was reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9190A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32RT-300T (PA-32RT-30)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-7887064
- Airframe hours
- 1,985
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-51AD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Piper Lance, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 14, 1990 · 112 hours before
- Departed
- AUS · Austin, TX
- Airport
- 8X53 · Pegasus Place, runway 15, 2,700 × 80 ft, 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,823 total · 65 in this make and model · 2,679 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.