- Date
- August 14, 1986, 08:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tunkhannock, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5888ZPiper PA-22-108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860814039579A
- Case key
- 30403
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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
Student pilot was attempting a landing at sky haven airport and landed short, bounced and landed in a left turn. At this point, the plt could not maintain directional control and ran off the runway, hit a barrel with the right gear and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5888Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-9752
- Airframe hours
- 4,234
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1B, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Skyhaven Airport, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 11, 1986 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- Tunkhannock, PA
- Airport
- 76N · Skyhaven, runway 18, 2,000 × 300 ft, gravel
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 9 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
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 N5888Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.