- Date
- August 27, 1988, 10:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Manville, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2445NPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880827038369A
- Case key
- 36223
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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
After completing six landings with an instructor the student plt was released by the instructor for his first solo flt to be conducted as a series of closed pattern touch-and-go landings. On his first solo landing the student plt landed nose wheel first with a high sink rate. The nose wheel steering linkage failed and on the second landing the nose wheel was cocked 90 degrees to the right. At touch down the acft departed the runway to the right shearing the nose gear and damaging the propeller, engine mounts, firewall, and underside longitudinal stringers.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2445N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-112
- Airframe hours
- 2,250
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kupper Aero Sales,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Tri-State Airways
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 47N
- Destination
- 47N
- Airport
- 47N · Kupper, runway 7, 3,415 × 50 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 46 total · 9 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.