- Date
- July 19, 1990, 18:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hudson, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15595Piper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900719027469A
- Case key
- 36696
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during a rejected landing. Factors related to the accident were: improper use of the flight controls by the pilot, a variable wind, and lack of expereince in type of airplane.
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 was landing and bounced twice. He rejected the landing and as he applied power, the airplane swerved approx 40 degrees to the left. The airplane struck trees and came to a stop. The pilot was landing on runway 21 and the winds were reported as variable between the sw to the nw at 5 to 10 knots. The pilot said he used insufficient right rudder when he applied full power. The FAA reported the variable wind would have been between a crosswind and a tailwind. The pilot hd 213 hours total time with one hour in make and model.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15595
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7305094
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mark K. Davis
- Registered owner
- Henry Leung
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HFD · Hartford, CT
- Airport
- 1B1 · Columbia Co, runway 21, 4,200 × 75 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 213 total · 1 in this make and model · 174 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.