- Date
- March 29, 1991, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- New Port Richey, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7454JPiper PA-28R-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910329008019A
- Case key
- 32842
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Probable cause
In-flight encounter with wind gusts while flaring to land and failure of the pilot to maintain directional control and failure to perform a goaround.
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 apch to land on rwy 26 with a wind from the south at 12 KTS with gusts to 19, the acft was blown off the rwy into trees along the rt side of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7454J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-30804
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wieser, Carol A.
- Registered owner
- Wieser, Carol A.
- Departed
- SSI · Brunswick, GA
- Airport
- X41 · Tampa Bay Executive, runway 26, 5,000 × 48 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 705 total · 325 in this make and model · 525 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 12 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.