- Date
- June 23, 1991, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bay Saint Louis, MS
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4571RPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910623025859A
- Case key
- 32894
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Probable cause
Loss of control in flight due to premature flare by the pilot resulting in inadvertent stall/mush, and failure of the pilot to recover from the bounced 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.
Analysis
The airplane stalled, touched down, bounced, then landed hard on the nose landing gear after the plt flared the acft too high.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4571R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-21312
- Airframe hours
- 3,223
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- New Orleans Navy Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Rivere, Paul & Lemoine, Robert
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 12, 1990 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- KNBG · New Orleans, LA
- Destination
- K3R6 · Bay Saint Louis, MS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 3R6 · Stennis International, runway 35, 8,499 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 125 total · 6 in this make and model · 48 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4571R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.