- Date
- September 26, 1987, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Osage Beach, MO
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5279PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870926056549A
- Case key
- 34446
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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
While performing as PIC during a biennial flt review, the CFI requested that the owner perform a short fld lndg using full flaps in cross wind conditions. The acft struck the terrain 50 feet short of the rwy and bounced onto the approach end of it. The CFI had just been issued his CFI certificate, had 1 hr of flt time in type, and 247 total hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5279P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-318
- Airframe hours
- 3,853
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leigh Associates, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 5, 1986
- Airport
- Grand Glaize, runway 14, 3,205 × 60 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 247 total · 1 in this make and model · 110 as pilot in command · 53 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COU, 50 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.