- Date
- May 1, 1996, 21:45 local (May 2, 1996, 03:45 UTC)
- Place
- Peyton, CO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N175WWPiper PA-28R-201T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 6, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960502009179A
- Case key
- 19827
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Probable cause
the failure of the right main tire due to valve stem separation.
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 pilot said that after making a normal landing, the airplane began wobbling. It then veered slowly to right and the right wing struck a taxiway sign. The pilot said he had checked the tire pressures two weeks before the accident and found them correctly inflated to 30 psi. Also, the tires appeared normal during his preflight inspection prior to the accident flight. Postflight inspection, however, revealed the right tire was flat. When the hub cap was removed, the valve stem fell out. It had separated from the tire tube. The pilot said it appeared the valve stem had not completely bonded to the tube.
Factual narrative
On May 1, 1996, approximately 2145 mountain daylight time, a Piper PA-28R-201T, N175WW, owned and operated by a private owner, was substantially damaged during landing at Peyton, Colorado. There were no injuries to the private pilot and two passengers. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated at Pueblo, Colorado, at approximately 2125 mountain daylight time.
The pilot said after making a normal landing, the airplane began wobbling. It then veered slowly to the right and the right wing struck a taxiway sign. The pilot said he had checked the tire pressures two weeks before the accident and found them correctly inflated to 30 psi. Also, the tires appeared normal during his preflight inspection prior to the accident flight. Postflight inspection, however, revealed the right tire was flat. When the hub cap was removed, the valve stem fell out. It had separated from the tire tube. The pilot said it appeared the valve stem had not completely bonded to the tube.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N175WW
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201T (PA-28R-201)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7703074
- Airframe hours
- 2,207
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-F, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eugene L. Jones
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 22, 1996 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- PUB · Pueblo, CO
- Destination
- 00V
- Airport
- 00V · Meadow Lake, runway 33, 5,999 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 614 total · 303 in this make and model · 241 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 40° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COS, 15 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.