- Date
- May 12, 2015, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Steele, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N56074Piper PA 28-180
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 27, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 91295
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a collision with objects while attempting to abort the landing.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot reported that after landing on his unpublished airstrip, he did not get the airplane slowed down on the wet grass surface. During the landing roll the airplane slid sideways, and the pilot aborted the landing. During the departure climb, the left wheel struck a fence resulting in a loss of control and the impact with a storage structure. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that after landing on his unpublished airstrip, he did not get the airplane slowed down on the wet grass surface. During the landing roll the airplane slid sideways, and the pilot aborted the landing. During the departure climb, the left wheel struck a fence resulting in a loss of control and the impact with a storage structure. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56074
- Reported as
- Piper PA 28-180 (180)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7305524
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 2,265.2
- Engine
- Lycoming O&VO-360 SER, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dewitz Chase
- Registered owner
- Dewitz Chase
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 30, 2014 · 1.2 hours before
- Departed
- Steele, ND
- Destination
- Steele, ND
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Handheld GPS
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
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 60 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- BIS, 5 nm away
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 9, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.1 MB in all.