- Date
- May 29, 1993, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4156VPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930529015739A
- Case key
- 33276
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's inadequate compensation for wind conditions and delayed remedical action.
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 CFI was instructing a rated pilot in the operation of the conventional landing gear airplane. During the landing on runway 17 the winds shifted and were from the north. The rated pilot started to lose control of the airplane on landing roll and the CFI took control of the airplane. He added power but the airplane ground-looped to the left and the right wing and elevator were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4156V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1809062
- Airframe hours
- 8
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pensacola Aviation Center Inc.
- Registered owner
- Pensacola Aviation Center Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000 · 8 hours before
- Airport
- PNS · Pensacola Regional, runway 17, 7,000 × 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
- 21
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 20 in this make and model · 1,380 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 1 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.