- Date
- July 7, 1992, 21:52 local (Jul 8, 1992, 02:52 UTC)
- Place
- Granbury, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4046RPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920707024019A
- Case key
- 18528
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare during landing and his improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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 airplane landed hard in a nose down attitude and bounced three times before departing off the side of the runway. It subsequently impacted in a ditch. The pilot did not attempt to go around until after the third bounce. However, the airplane impacted the ground a fourth time and the pilot abandoned the go around attempt. All three gear were driven up through the airplane structure as was the tail tie down ring. The pilot had loaded the airplane with 560 pounds of concrete blocks and a sack of concrete to simulate a load.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4046R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-40345
- Airframe hours
- 3,103
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-E4B5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mulhern, Michael L.
- Registered owner
- Stolzer, Dale V.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 12, 1992 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- F54 · Arlington, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- F55 · Cherry Field, runway 14, 3,600 × 60 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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 430 total · 130 in this make and model · 400 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4046R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.