- Date
- May 4, 1989, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lacey, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24508Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890504010919A
- Case key
- 41005
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain proper alignment during landing.
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 plt reported that a gust of wind caused the airplane to drift to the left during the landing. The airplane touched down left of the centerline and the left gear entered an area of tall grass resulting in substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24508
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 79A1127
- Airframe hours
- 1,755
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2A, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald Gamewell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1989 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- OLM · Olympia, WA
- Airport
- Gower Field, runway 6, 1,800 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 261 total · 228 in this make and model · 236 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 25 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.