- Date
- June 7, 1989, 18:22 local (23:22 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Leavenworth, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9507DPiper PA-22-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890607014529A
- Case key
- 34807
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was the student's lack of total experience.
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
According to witnesses, the student pilot was on his first supervised solo flight, when he attempted to land. Directional control was lost and the acft veered off the runway, sheared the nose gear and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9507D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-6422
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- 06MO · Waldron, MO
- Destination
- FLV · Leavenworth, KS
- Airport
- FLV · Sherman, runway 15, 5,905 × 100 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 8 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Observed at
- FLV, 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.
Other investigations on N9507D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.