- Date
- July 10, 1983, 16:43 local (22:43 UTC)
- Place
- Scottsbluff, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25718Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830710034639A
- Case key
- 33441
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aborted landing - performedFactor
Ground loop/swerve - initiatedFactor
Analysis
While the student plt was making his first supervised sold landing, the acft veered left at touchdown. The plt applied power for a go around & the left wing contacted the ground off the rwy spinning the acft around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25718
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-81A0061
- Airframe hours
- 552
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Valley Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1983 · 54 hours before
- Airport
- BFF · Scottsbluff County, runway 30, 8,280 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16 total · 16 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.