- Date
- February 25, 1982, 21:45 local (Feb 26, 1982, 04:45 UTC)
- Place
- Jerome, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3561GPiper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820225000749A
- Case key
- 71195
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Analysis
The student was practicing night landings under supervision of an instructor. There was a 40 degree left cross- wind prevailing at 16 knots. While landing, the aircraft bounced and drifted right. The instructor thought there was plenty of room, so he did not assume control of the plane. However, during the next touchdown, the plane struck a snowbank. The snowbank was parallel to the runway and was located about 20 ft inside of the runway lights.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3561G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28 8090185
- Airframe hours
- 965
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 181 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sun Valley Aviation
- Registered owner
- Harry Oppenheimer
- Departed
- SUN · Hailey, ID
- Destination
- SUN · Hailey, ID
- Airport
- U73 · Jerome, runway 8, 3,200 × 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,495 total · 110 in this make and model · 1,321 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 40° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 91 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N3561G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.