- Date
- July 16, 1985, 17:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Hookstown, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5322ZPiper PA-22-108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850716031579A
- Case key
- 35914
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
The instructor and student were practicing normal takeoffs and landings. According to the pilot, on the sixth landing, at the correct airspeed, the aircraft touched down on the main gear and then the noise wheel collapsed. The aircraft then nosed over. According to doyal w. miller, an FAA aviation safety inspector, tire scuff marks revealed that the aircraft touched down nose first, in a left crab, about 200 feet short of the runway on the thresholds the aircraft slid on its nose, nosed over, and came to rest 130 feet from the touch down marks. The elevator controls operated normally after the bent panels and broken nose strut were removed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5322Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-9026
- Airframe hours
- 3,831
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1B, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William V. Jednack
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 26, 1985 · 68 hours before
- Airport
- 80PN · Hanna Beaver, runway 31, 2,719 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 18
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 354 total · 53 in this make and model · 220 as pilot in command · 69 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BVI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.