- Date
- April 26, 1992, 13:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Brooksville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2335KPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920426011089A
- Case key
- 33087
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions during the landing flare, in gusty winds.
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 pvt pilot stated that in the landing flare he encountered strong gusty winds and lost control of the airplane and it nosed over coming to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2335K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 79A0581
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ernest O. Seal, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Tampa Flying Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 13, 1992 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- TPF · Tampa, FL
- Airport
- XO5 · Pilot Country, runway 36, 3,700 × 75 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 88 total · 72 in this make and model · 46 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 200 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.