- Date
- September 24, 1990, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Elkhorn Lake, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7965WPiper PA28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900924052119A
- Case key
- 36488
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper decision to land on a short, wet grass strip. A contributing factor was the wet grass.
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 pilot landed on a wet sod runway 1,600 feet long. And was unable to stop the airplane before the end of the runway. The airplane skidded off the runway and struck an embankment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7965W
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-2015
- Airframe hours
- 2,178
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas H. Criqui
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 18, 1990 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- FZI · Fostoria, OH
- Airport
- 4D3 · Elkhorn Lake, runway 9, 1,600 × 50 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,500 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 4,300 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MFD, 18 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 N7965W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.