- Date
- July 25, 1988, 15:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2197KPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880725027889A
- Case key
- 32222
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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.
Analysis
The CFI stated they had completed 2 touch & go ldgs without incident. On the next, the acft 'suddenly yawed to the left & the side load must have weakened the gear as the gear warning horn began to sound indicating the gear was no longer down & locked'. He stated he took control from the multi-eng student plt & attempted to slow & regain control of the acft. The left gear collapsed, yawing the nose left, then right, collapsing the right gear. The acft left the rwy & hit a rwy light coming to rest off the rwy. The CFI stated just prior to the accident, he heard a report of windshear from an acft to the north. He stated the acft had performed normally prior to the accident. A tower supvr stated the acft touched down about 1500 ft down the rwy, traveling about 1/2 way down it before leaving the rwy. He stated he did not observe any other acft having any problem on the rwy or traffic pattern & there were no reports of windshear during that period.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2197K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44 7995206
- Airframe hours
- 1,665
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Professional Aero Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 18, 1988 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- ORL · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- SFB · Sanford, FL
- Airport
- SFB · Sanford, runway 9, 8,000 × 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,347 total · 249 in this make and model · 1,270 as pilot in command · 152 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.