- Date
- September 21, 1992, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2141TPiper PA-28-200R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920921042129A
- Case key
- 18569
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper clearance with the hole. Factors were the lack of markings and the poor maintenance of the taxiway and runway.
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
A pilot rolled past the center taxiway after landing. After a 180 degree turn to reverse direction, the pilot attempted to expedite exiting the active runway due to landing traffic. The left main landing gear fell into a 10 inch pothole on the edge of the runway causing substantial damage to the landing gear assembly, gear attaching structure and the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2141T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-200R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7135144
- Airframe hours
- 2,729
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Forbes, Myrick R., doing business as Bourland Flight Academy
- Registered owner
- Forbes, Myrick R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 16, 1992 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- 50F
- Destination
- 50F
- Airport
- 50F · Bourland, runway 17, 4,150 × 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Foreign, 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
- 1,100 total · 91 in this make and model · 948 as pilot in command · 207 in the last 90 days · 96 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 30 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.
Other investigations on N2141T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.