- Date
- April 8, 1982, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Napa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30325Piper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820408020379A
- Case key
- 71825
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
After making 8 touch & go landings, the pilot lost directional control during a full-stop landing. The aircraft slid off the runwway into grass & then onto a taxiway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30325
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R 7837313
- Airframe hours
- 2,058
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Iasco
- Departed
- Stockton, CA
- Destination
- Napa, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- APC · Napa County, runway 24, 5,007 × 150 ft, concrete
N30325Registered now · Piper PA-28R-201Airframe modelPiper PA-28R-201Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 160 total · 160 in this make and model · 104 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Temperature
- 147 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.