- Date
- November 10, 1989, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hays, KS
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4114WPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891110044999A
- Case key
- 34908
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly flare the airplane during landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
While making a normal approach for landing, the pilot said that he flared too high which resulted in a hard landing. The left wheel separated from the landing gear and the acft skidded off the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4114W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-40177
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Boyer, Robert E.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- EQA · El Dorado, KS
- Destination
- HYS · Hays, KS
- Airport
- HYS · Hays, runway 16, 6,301 × 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 368 total · 137 in this make and model · 341 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- HYS, 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 N4114W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.