- Date
- May 15, 1988, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ocean Springs, MS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7682KPiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880515015229A
- Case key
- 32181
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The instructor stated that they were on their third touch and go and had made a wheel landing, and just as she started to retract the flaps, the aircraft made an aprx 30 degree turn off the right side of the runway. She then stated that no matter how much correction was made to the left, the acft still veered right, struck a fence, flipped over the fence and came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7682K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-504
- Airframe hours
- 1,628
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jeffrey R. Ryan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 13, 1988
- Departed
- Gulfport, MS
- Airport
- 5B2 · Gulfpark, runway 35, 3,500 × 50 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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,416 total · 22 in this make and model · 1,344 as pilot in command · 53 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GPT, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.