- Date
- June 14, 1991, 12:54 local (17:54 UTC)
- Place
- New Orleans, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N44447Piper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910614022019A
- Case key
- 23344
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor was: the pilot's lack of total experience in model.
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
During a daytime visual approach the pilot lost control of the multi-engine airplane following a hard landing and an attempted abort. The airplane touched down 1,000 feet past the approach end threshold and porpoised. During the abort, the airplane did not sustain flying speed and struck the ground again, separating the left main landing gear. After the loss of control the right main and nose gear also collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44447
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-757002
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-E, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Neal Nadler, doing business as Air Reldan, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PNS · Pensacola, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- NEW · Lakefront, runway 36, 3,699 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 217 total · 16 in this make and model · 116 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N44447 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.