Piper PA-28-151 N32840

Summary

On 14 August 1999 at about 20:00 local time, a Piper PA-28-151 registered N32840 was involved in an accident near Red Wing, Minnesota, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

14 August 1999 at 20:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Red Wing, Minnesota, United States

Nearest airport

Red Wing Municipal Arpt (RGK)

Coordinates

44.5793, -92.6000

Aircraft

Piper PA-28-151

Registration

N32840

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

South St. Paul → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI99LA301

Nobody was injured.

Directional control not being maintained by the pilot. A factor to the accident was the ditch.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot completed a standard left-handed traffic pattern for runway 27 and touched down on the runway, tracking the runway centerline, without incident. The pilot reported that during the landing rollout a, '...very strong crosswind from the north pushed the plane south of the runway, I applied full right aileron to keep the right wing down. I was on the brakes [and] a ground loop developed.' The pilot stated that the airplane departed the prepared runway surface and came to rest in a 10 foot deep trench that paralleled runway 27, located approximately 150 feet south of the southern edge of the runway. A weather observation station, located on the airport, four minutes prior to the accident time, reported the wind 210-degrees at 6 knots. Other weather observation stations, near the accident site, did not record any significant winds or other weather phenomena near the time of the accident.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.