- Date
- February 14, 1990, 16:23 local (Feb 15, 1990, 00:23 UTC)
- Place
- Napa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2824YPiper PA-28RT-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900214003569A
- Case key
- 26734
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing.
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 student pilot ground looped the aircraft after landing into a quartering crosswind. The pilot applied left aileron and left rudder to correct the out of control aircraft from departing the runway. The aircraft ground looped 180 degrees and collapsed the right main landing gear. There were no mechanical problems prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2824Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28RT-201 (PA-28RT-20)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7918161
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-CK6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Iasco
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- CIC · Chico, CA
- Airport
- APC · Napa County, runway 36L, 5,392 × 150 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- 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.