- Date
- March 24, 1993, 09:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Walls, MS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N55919Piper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930324006769A
- Case key
- 33247
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's delay in aborting the landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated he made a normal visual approach to the north and touched down on the first third of the grass runway. As the aircraft rolled out he applied brakes and it began to slide on the wet runway. He applied full power and performed an aborted landing. The aircraft became airborne and cleared a ditch at the departure end of the runway. However, the main landing gear struck the edge of a highway which runs perpendicular to the departure end of the runway. The aircraft then nosed down and crashed in a field on the north side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55919
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7335312
- Airframe hours
- 3,590
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Taylor, Terry R.
- Registered owner
- Twinkletown Flying Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 21, 1992 · 150 hours before
- Departed
- OLV · Olive Branch, MS
- Airport
- 2M6 · Twinkletown, runway 36, 2,000 × 160 ft, grass/turf
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 121 total · 14 in this make and model · 89 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MEM, 14 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 N55919 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.