- Date
- November 8, 1987, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N269ERPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871108066199A
- Case key
- 32084
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - excessiveCause
Airspeed(vref) - not maintainedCause
Supervision - inadequateCause
Analysis
While practicing short field landings, the student plt flared the acft prematurely resulting in a hard landing & substantial damage. The acft was then taxied to the ramp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N269ER
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 448195011
- Airframe hours
- 6,358
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-E1A67, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Phoenix East Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Phoenix East Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- DAB · Daytona Beach Regional, runway 7L, 7,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
N269ERRegistration cancelled Mar 26, 2013 · Piper PA-44-180Airframe modelPiper PA-44-180Engine 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 720 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.