- Date
- January 28, 1996, 11:46 local (21:46 UTC)
- Place
- Hilo, HI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7358YPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960128001029A
- Case key
- 29370
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision of the student pilot by the flight instructor during an attempted go-around from a balked landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and collision with a distance remaining marker.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot/flight instructor reported that the student pilot was in the left seat operating the controls as they approached for landing with the left engine idled to simulate zero thrust. The student flared the aircraft for landing too high above the runway, and the flight instructor called for a go-around. The student advanced power on the right engine, and the aircraft yawed about 30 degrees to the left. The flight instructor took control of the aircraft and reduced power to idle on both engines as the aircraft veered off the runway to the left about 5,000 feet from the landing threshold. The aircraft landed in a grass area off the runway, and the right wing struck a distance remaining marker about 3 feet inboard from the wing tip. The flight instructor regained control, stopping the aircraft in the grass area.
Factual narrative
On January 28, 1996, at 1146 hours Hawaiian standard time, a Piper PA-30, N7358Y, veered off runway 26 during landing at Hilo International Airport, Hilo, Hawaii, and struck a runway distance remaining marker with the right wing. The aircraft was substantially damaged; however, the ATP-licensed flight instructor and his commercial-licensed student were not injured. The flight departed from Hilo at 0950 hours for the local area instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and multiple practice instrument approaches had been conducted prior to the accident.
The pilot/flight instructor told inspectors from the FAA Honolulu Flight Standards District Office that the student pilot was in the left seat operating the controls as they approached Hilo for landing with the left engine idled to simulate zero thrust. The student flared the aircraft for landing 10 feet above the runway and the flight instructor, believing they were too high, called for a go-around. The student advanced power on the right engine and the aircraft yawed about 30 degrees to the left. The flight instructor took control of the aircraft and reduced power to idle on both engines as the aircraft veered off the runway to the left about 5,000 feet from the landing threshold. The aircraft landed in a grass area off the runway, and the right wing struck the distance remaining marker about 3 feet inboard from the wing tip. The flight instructor regained control, stopping the aircraft in the grass area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7358Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-413
- Airframe hours
- 2,885
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Twin Comanche Aviators
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 15, 1995 · 87 hours before
- Departed
- ITO
- Airport
- ITO · Hilo International, runway 26, 9,800 × 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,904 total · 337 in this make and model · 4,650 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ITO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.