- Date
- April 24, 1984, 07:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Boulder City, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95434Piper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840424014279A
- Case key
- 39904
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Wrong runway - selectedFactor
Level off - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Nose over
Analysis
The acft nosed over after a loss of control following a bounced landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95434
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-25949
- Airframe hours
- 3,798
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ralph D. Wakefield
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 8, 1983 · 45 hours before
- Airport
- BLD · Boulder City, runway 3, 2,905 × 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 64 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.