- Date
- November 11, 1988, 16:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- Clearwater, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N81609Piper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881111050459A
- Case key
- 32357
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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
As the student plt was making a simulated single eng apch, the instructor's attention was momentarily diverted inside the cockpit. When the instructor looked outside again, the acft was low & slow on a short final apch. The CFI applied power to arrest the descent, but the main gear collapsed when the acft touched down short of the rwy & contacted the rwy lip. There was no failure or malfunction of the engines or flt controls.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81609
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44-8095022
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bay Air Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Galbraith Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- PIE · St Petersburg-Clearwater, runway 4, 5,500 × 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
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 100 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 220 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.