Piper PA-46-350P N41827
12 May 2006 · Del Norte, Colorado, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 12 May 2006 at about 22:45 local time, a Piper PA-46-350P registered N41827 was involved in an accident near Del Norte, Colorado, United States. 4 people were 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.
The record
- Date
- at 22:45
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Del Norte, Colorado, United States
- Nearest airport
- Del Norte Municipal & County (8V1)
- Coordinates
- 37.6706, -106.3494
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-46-350P
- Registration
- N41827
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Business
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Fort Worth → Del Norte
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- DEN06LA076
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed, resulting in an inadvertent stall and impact with terrain during a power-on landing. Contributing factors were the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing, and windshear.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The pilot had been taught to fly a "high and hot final" approach. He made his final approach to runway 26 at 85 KIAS (knots indicated airspeed) with 2 notches of flap deployed. When the airplane was about a mile from the runway, the engine "barked." The pilot enrichened the mixture slightly and the engine ran smoothly. When the airplane was about 150 yards from the runway threshold, it "fell," or began to sink excessively in a nose high attitude. The pilot attributed this sudden descent to windshear. The airplane "landed hard and bounced." The pilot retracted the landing gear (because there was a ditch ahead and he thought it would be better to hit the ditch with the landing gear up) and added power to abort the landing. The airplane touched down again, swerved 90 degrees, and skidded to a halt on the dirt. Post-accident examination revealed no airplane or engine discrepancies. ASOS-observed weather, recorded 36 miles southeast of the accident site, indicated the wind was from 240 degrees at 11 knots, gusting to 15 knots.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Piper PA-46 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Dec 2006 | Piper PA-46-350P | Augsburg, Germany | Aircraft Guaranty Title & Trust LLC | No injuries | - |
| 21 Dec 2006 | Piper PA-46-350P | Concord, California, United States | - | Fatal | 4 |
| 3 Nov 2006 | Piper PA-46-310P | Chester, Illinois, United States | Robert W. Rollins | No injuries | - |
| 15 Sep 2006 | Piper PA-46-310P | Toluca, Mexico | Unknonw | Fatal | 1 |
| 20 Jan 2006 | Piper PA-46/JETPROP | Tampa, Florida, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 6 Aug 2006 | Piper PA-46-350P | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States | Scott M Buchart | No injuries | - |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2006 | Boeing 747-400 | Denver, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
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| 5 Mar 2006 | Aviat PITTS S-2B | Severance, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 10 Jun 2006 | McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 | Denver, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 10 Jun 2006 | Malott MUSTANG II | Peyton, Colorado, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 11 Jun 2006 | Rolladen-Schneider LS-3 | Buena Vista, Colorado, United States | - | Serious injuries | - |