- Date
- August 25, 2018, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Point Lookout, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7635FPiper PA28
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180825012309A
- Case key
- 98181
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadvertent left brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with runway lights.
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, during the landing roll, he inadvertently applied the left toe brake while attempting to apply left rudder. The airplane veered left, and he attempted to regain directional control, but the airplane exited the left side of the runway and collided with runway lighting before coming to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The student reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that during the landing roll, he inadvertently applied the left toe brake while attempting to apply left rudder. The airplane veered to the left and he attempted to regain directional control, but the airplane exited the left side of the runway and collided with runway lighting before coming to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The student pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7635F
- Reported as
- Piper PA28 (181)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7790197
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 2,838
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 27, 2018
- Departed
- PLK · Point Lookout, MO
- Destination
- PLK · Point Lookout, MO
- Airport
- PLK · M Graham Clark Downtown, runway 30, 3,738 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Stall warning system
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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 28.7 total · 28.7 in this make and model · 3.7 as pilot in command · 23.3 in the last 90 days · 7.8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KBBG, 6 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 30, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.