- Date
- September 15, 1989, 19:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Fernandina Bch, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N91344Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890915035199A
- Case key
- 32503
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Probable cause
The private pilot's failure to maintain airspeed on final approach, which resulted in a stall/mush. The turbulence was a related factor.
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 a student plt was preparing to fly, he invited a pvt plt to accompany him & the pvt plt accepted the offer. They flew to another arpt in the area to practice tough-&-go landings. While practicing landings, they noted the wind was 'bouncing' the acft. As the pvt plt was making an apch to land, the acft began to lose altitude, rapidly. The pvt plt applied full power, but the acft crashed about 70 ft short of the rwy before he stopped the dscnt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91344
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A0010
- Airframe hours
- 3,345
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Shields Aviation
- Registered owner
- Shields Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 7, 1989 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- 55J · Fernandina Beach Muni, runway 13, 4,800 × 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 140 total · 18 in this make and model · 71 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 44 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX, 13 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.