- Date
- May 6, 1982, 12:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Willcox, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2393BPiper PA-38
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 6, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820506014059A
- Case key
- 73049
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
Flt control syst,rudder control - jammedFactor
Rudder - not possibleCause
Tie down - improperCause
Judgment - poorCause
Control interference - inadvertentCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Analysis
Student pilot on first solo cross-country ground looped during an en route landing. The pilot's flight bag had fallen off the right seat and lodged itself between the rudder pedals. Rudder control was lost.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2393B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 79A0035
- Airframe hours
- 2,382
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hudgins Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hudgins Air Service, Inc.
- Departed
- DUG · Douglas, AZ
- Destination
- P33 · Wilcox, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- P33 · Cochise County, runway 21, 6,100 × 75 ft, asphalt
N2393BRegistered now · Piper PA-38-112Airframe modelPiper PA-38-112Engine modelLycoming 0-235 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 38 total · 38 in this make and model · 38 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 149 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.