- Date
- October 7, 1982, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bunnell, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N259ERPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821007051969A
- Case key
- 70081
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Undershoot
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Terrain condition - rough/unevenFactor
Main gear collapsed
Recovery from bounced landing - performedFactor
Landing gear,main gear - overloadCause
Analysis
During a simulated dual engine failure the student touched down short of the runway. The right main gear struck the edge of the runway with enough force to damage the innerstrut. The instructor then took control of the aircraft, landed, and the right landing gear failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N259ER
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-819500B
- Airframe hours
- 2,589
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Embry-Riddle Aeronalitiene Uni
- Registered owner
- Embry-Riddle Aeronalitiene Uni
- Departed
- C · Dayton, FL
- Destination
- C · Bunnell, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- X47 · Flagler County, runway 11, 5,000 × 200 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,974 total · 633 in this make and model · 2,544 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Observed at
- DY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.