- Date
- October 7, 1989, 08:54 local (12:54 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9141HPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891007039499A
- Case key
- 32589
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to go around after landing long with excessive airspeed.
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
While on final apch to land. The student plt observed that the acft was high, but he contd the apch. After passing over the threshold at an indcd airspeed of about 90 KTS, the acft touched down, bounced & then touched down with about 200' of rwy remaining. The plt applied braking action, but the acft veered off the left end of the rwy & the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9141H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2816056
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- VRB · Vero Beach, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- TIX · Space Center Executive, runway 36, 6,001 × 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- TIX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.