- Date
- September 29, 1988, 14:36 local (21:36 UTC)
- Place
- Renton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5896WPiper PA-28-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 6, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880929044509A
- Case key
- 40900
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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
The student pilot was returning from a long solo cross country. The runway was undergoing construction. 2,300 feet remained for landing. Landing needed to be accomplished over barriers. The student pilot had approach flaps set. The tower asked the pilot to make a high approach. The pilot then added full flaps. A high rate of sink developed. A hard bounced landing then occurred. The aircraft veered to the right of the runway and continued until it struck a river that paralleled the runway. The pilot stated that there was no effective left rudder or left brake available. FAA airworthiness inspectors inspected the braking system and the aircraft, but could find no reason for loss of left rudder control or left braking.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5896W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-2685
- Airframe hours
- 2,036
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry Dillon
- Registered owner
- Larry Dillon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 3, 1988
- Departed
- S47 · Tillamook, OR
- Destination
- RTN · Renton, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RNT · Renton Municipal, runway 33, 2,300 × 200 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
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 43 total · 33 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.