- Date
- July 19, 1992, 12:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Walton Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3292ZPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920719025949A
- Case key
- 33110
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged his altitude while turning on final approach over water to land at an airport.
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 commerical pilot made a low level approach to the runway and released a banner after completing a banner tow flight. After the pilot released the banner, he initiated a climb to 300 ft AGL and entered left traffic for runway 36. However, during a turn onto final approach, the airplane descended, and the left main landing gear collided with water, while the airplane was a a 15 to 20 deg bank. The airplane then nosed over and came to rest in 3 to 4 ft of water about 200 yds southwest of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3292Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-7229
- Airframe hours
- 5,756
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Boomer Aviation,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Michael C. Williams
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 18, 1992 · 168 hours before
- Departed
- IJ9
- Destination
- IJ9
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 650 total · 120 in this make and model · 550 as pilot in command · 179 in the last 90 days · 96 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VPS, 5 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.
Other investigations on N3292Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.