- Date
- December 13, 1990, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Easton, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9898KPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901213053929A
- Case key
- 36857
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Probable cause
The flight instructor allowed the airplane to get too low on final approach during the demonstration of a power off landing.
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 CFI was demonstrating a power off landing to the student pilot. On short final with the CFI at the controls the airplane was too low to clear a 10 foot hill about 100 feet from the runway threshold. The CFI deployed the flaps but the airplane was to slow and did not have enough power applied to clear the hill.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9898K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7816210
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Braden Flying Service
- Airport
- N43 · Easton, runway 18, 2,000 × 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
- 37
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 800 in this make and model · 800 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.