Piper PA-24-250 N8078P

Summary

On 20 October 1999 at about 16:00 local time, a Piper PA-24-250 registered N8078P was involved in an accident near Bozeman, Montana, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

20 October 1999 at 16:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Bozeman, Montana, United States

Nearest airport

Gallatin Field (BZN)

Coordinates

45.2598, -111.3202

Aircraft

Piper PA-24-250

Registration

N8078P

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

SEA00LA006

2 people had minor injuries.

The pilot-in-command's (CFI) failure to take remedial action. Factors include the private pilot letting the airspeed get too low.

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

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The private pilot, whose flight review had expired, was in the process of completing a flight review recurrency flight, when the instructor reduced the power and asked him to execute a simulated forced landing. As he stretched the glide in an attempt to make it to the approach end of the runway, the airspeed became lower than normal approach speed. Although the aircraft was able to reach the end of the runway, just after it crossed the threshold, it dropped onto the runway with sufficient force to cause substantial damage. Although the airspeed had slowed below normal approach speed as the aircraft neared the approach end of the runway, the instructor pilot did not add power, nor did she call for termination of the simulated forced landing exercise.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.