Piper PA-28-180 N6535J

Summary

On 24 March 2004 at about 13:45 local time, a Piper PA-28-180 registered N6535J was involved in an accident near Norwood, Massachusetts, 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

24 March 2004 at 13:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Norwood, Massachusetts, United States

Nearest airport

Norwood (OWD)

Coordinates

42.1903, -71.1728

Aircraft

Piper PA-28-180

Registration

N6535J

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Norwood → Norwood

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

NYC04CA091

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot failure to recover from a bounced landing. A factor in this accident was the student pilot's lack of solo flight experience.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was conducting her first unsupervised solo flight, and was practicing takeoffs and landings on a 4,008-foot-long, 100-foot-wide, asphalt runway. She had completed approximately 17 landings prior to the accident; however, during the next landing attempt, her approach was high, and when the airplane contacted the runway, it landed harder, and bounced higher, than usual. The airplane began to porpoise, the propeller struck the runway, and the nose gear collapsed. The airplane then departed the right side of the runway and struck a snow bank. The student pilot did not experience any mechanical problems. She reported 49.2 hours of total flight experience, all in the make and model of the accident airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.