- Date
- April 11, 2006, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Norwood, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4359DPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 29, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060411008389A
- Case key
- 63484
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing rollout.
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 was conducting a local flight in the traffic pattern. During the landing rollout, the airplane departed the left side of the runway striking an airport sign, a runway light, and a taxiway light. The student pilot reported no anomalies with the airplane, and the winds about the time of the accident were 100 degrees from the left at 6 knots.
Factual narrative
According to the student pilot, he was conducting a local flight in the traffic pattern. During the landing rollout, the airplane departed the left side of the runway striking an airport sign, a runway light, and a taxiway light. The student pilot reported no anomalies with the airplane, and the winds about the time of the accident were 100 degrees from the left at 6 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4359D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8416089
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- ADS Aircraft Management Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Departed
- OWD · Norwood, MA
- Destination
- OWD
- Airport
- OWD · Norwood Memorial Airport, runway 35
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 1, 2006
- Flight hours
- 105 total · 105 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.