- Date
- February 20, 1982, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Perryville, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2240KPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820220006289A
- Case key
- 72202
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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 student pilot landed on runway 19 at his home airport after returing from a solo cross-country flight. The wind was from 220 degrees at 12 knots. After touchdown, the aircraft drifted to the right and impacted a snowbank beside the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2240K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7916233
- Airframe hours
- 1,632
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sexauer Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Louis Sexauer
- Departed
- Dyersburg, TN
- Destination
- SKI · Sac City, IA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- Municipal, runway 19, 4,500 × 160 ft, concrete
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 44 total · 44 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 144 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CGI, 31 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.