- Date
- March 31, 1983, 15:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Vancouver, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91336Piper PA-32-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830331011149A
- Case key
- 39672
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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
According to the instructor (CFI), the student was approaching the rwy at 60 KTS with the power reduced when he chopped the power & flared at aprx 10 to 15 ft AGL. The right wing dropped & the acft landed hard before the CFI corrected the situation. The right wing spar, nose gear, tail cone, right wing skin & right aileron were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91336
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-8140165
- Airframe hours
- 650
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2A, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Evans, Darrel Gratzer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 16, 1983 · 56 hours before
- Airport
- 60S · Pearson, runway 26, 3,200 × 60 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 75 in this make and model · 1,300 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDX, 6 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.