- Date
- June 15, 1990, 01:00 local (05:00 UTC)
- Place
- Boca Raton, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3822WPiper PA-32-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900615020689A
- Case key
- 32671
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Probable cause
The pilots failure to flare the airplane for landing resulting in the hard landing.
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.
Hard landing
Flare - improper
Analysis
The plt stated that he did not flare for the night landing soon enough, resulting in the hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3822W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-754
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Krotz, Paul W.
- Departed
- ORL · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- BCT · Boca Raton, runway 5, 5,200 × 150 ft, asphalt
N3822WRegistration cancelled Sep 19, 2013 · Piper PA-32-260Airframe modelPiper PA-32-260Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 700 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 110° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- FLL, 19 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.