- Date
- April 6, 1991, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Andes, NY
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9006JPiper 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910406042989A
- Case key
- 36912
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during a landing with unfavorable winds.
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 airplane was landing at a private airport, when just before touchdown, the pilot encountered an updraft. The pilot initiated a go around and raised the flaps to 25 degrees. The pilot said, 'full power was not sufficient to initiate a go around...the plane moved out of the shelter of trees...exposing the aircraft to a crosswind. I decided at that point that I had little chance of climbing out. I dropped a notch of flaps and the plane set down on the strip, but in a leftward drift, where it clipped a small tree along the left side of the runway, spun around and came to a halt after a 180 degree spin.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9006J
- Reported as
- Piper 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28 3031
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360 A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dr. Anthony Coscia
- Registered owner
- Dr. Anthony Coscia
- Departed
- DXR · Danbury, CT
- Airport
- NONE · None, runway 36, 3,400 × 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 420 total · 170 in this make and model · 420 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °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.