- Date
- June 10, 1985, 06:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6456APiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850610023799A
- Case key
- 40173
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a local instructional flight a bounced landing was made. The acft bounced nose high to about 20 ft AGL. The acft then veered left of the rwy after full power had been added and flaps reduced from 40 degrees to 25 degrees for an attempted go-around at about 50 knots indicated the acft struck some rocks to the left of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6456A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-78A0431
- Airframe hours
- 1,527
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Darrell Jenson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 6, 1984
- Departed
- LAS · Las Vegas, NV
- Destination
- L15 · Las Vegas, NV
- Airport
- L15 · Sky Harbor, runway 18, 5,000 × 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,179 total · 126 in this make and model · 1,160 as pilot in command · 107 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.