- Date
- July 26, 1992, 16:11 local (23:11 UTC)
- Place
- Spokane, WA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N139CAPiper PA-24-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920726028119A
- Case key
- 42862
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Probable cause
The premature landing flare by the recently certificated private pilot, and her failure to properly recover from the bounced landing. A factor relating to the accident was the gusty wind conditions.
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 acft landed hard, bounced, swerved off the runway, and impacted terrain. The wind was reported as 14 gusting to 22 knots. The pilot was certificated on 10/23/91 and had 15 hours total flt time as PIC in the PA24 acft. The pilot rated passenger, seated in the right seat, who had 544 hours flt time and 362 hours PIC time in the Piper PA24 acft, took no corrective action during the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N139CA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-4570
- Airframe hours
- 5,238
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-D4A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Boubel, Thomas R.
- Registered owner
- Boubel, Richard W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1991 · 130 hours before
- Departed
- 3S2 · Aurora, OR
- Airport
- GEG · Spokane International, runway 21, 9,000 × 150 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 38 in this make and model · 67 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 14 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.