- Date
- June 22, 1991, 11:20 local (15:20 UTC)
- Place
- Doylestown, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4821TPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910622026069A
- Case key
- 36942
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Probable cause
The flight instructor allowed the student to continue a simulated engine failure to a hard landing, resulting in a bounced landing and loss of directional control and a collision with the VASI.
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
During a training flight the CFI gave the student a simulated engine out landing. The CFI thought the flight would end short of the intended runway, but elected to let the student continue the approach. The airplane landed hard and bounced. The airplane drifted left, started to settle and the CFI powered up the engine for a go-around; however, the left gear and stabilator struck the VASI to the left of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4821T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7235117
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-CIC, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth Millar, doing business as Ken Miller Enterprises
- Registered owner
- Kenneth Millar
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Airport
- N88 · Doylestown, runway 5, 3,000 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 56
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 14 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.