- Date
- June 19, 1992, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bryan, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24611Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920619022059A
- Case key
- 18526
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Probable cause
The certified flight instructor's misjudging the runway remaining for the aborted landing. Factors were the student pilot's misjudging the touchdown point and inadequate supervision of the approach by the CFI.
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
While practicing touch and go landings in preparation for his second supervised solo, the student pilot was high and fast on the second approach. The instructor pilot said he decided 'to stand by and see what he would do' and that he realized the airplane would touch down long. The instructor also stated that on touchdown, he decided 'improperly' that he had sufficient runway left remaining to abort the landing. He executed a short field takeoff, however, at liftoff the left main gear struck a 12 inch high barrier at the end of the runway. The gear separated and the airplane continued to climb out. After a low pass to see what parts had separated from the airplane the instructor landed. During the landing roll the airplane veered left off of the runway. Substantial damage was sustained to the fuselage and the empennage when the gear separated during the aborted landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24611
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-79A1137
- Airframe hours
- 1,366
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bryan Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Tribbey, Roy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 2, 1992 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- CFD
- Destination
- CFD
- Airport
- CFD · Coulter Field, runway 13, 3,000 × 50 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
- 31
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,663 total · 268 in this make and model · 1,585 as pilot in command · 145 in the last 90 days · 52 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 73 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.