Piper PA28 N9267H

Summary

On 19 July 2018 at about 19:00 local time, a Piper PA28 registered N9267H, operated by Peterson Aviation Llc, was involved in an accident near Oregon, Wisconsin, 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

19 July 2018 at 19:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Oregon, Wisconsin, United States

Nearest airport

Peterson Field (15WI)

Coordinates

42.9275, -89.4181

Aircraft

Piper PA28

Registration

N9267H

Category

Airplane

Year built

1996

Engines

1

Operator

Peterson Aviation Llc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Watertown → Watertown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA18CA432

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's improper decision to take off with a known brake malfunction, which resulted in a collision with a barn during landing on a wet runway.  

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the pilot receiving instruction, during instrument training, she and the flight instructor noted that the left brake was less effective than the right brake during landing. Following the training, the pilot receiving instruction returned to her home airport, and during landing on the wet, grass runway, she executed a go-around because there was insufficient runway to safely stop the airplane. During the second landing, the airplane touched down with about two-thirds of the 2,600-ft-long runway remaining. During the landing roll, the pilot receiving instruction ensured that the throttle was in the idle position, and she retracted the flaps and applied aft pressure to the yoke. She applied the foot brakes and then the hand brake and again noted that the left brake was less effective than the right brake, and the airplane continued to slide on the wet grass. The airplane overran the runway and impacted a drainage culvert. Subsequently, the right wing struck a barn, and the left wing struck a trailer. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wing's spars and ribs. According to the Federal Aviation Administration aviation safety inspector who examined the airplane, there was a pool of hydraulic fluid on the ground that appeared to be consistent with an O-ring failure or displacement. He affirmed that, although degraded, the brake would still have been functional but would have required more input by the pilot to build pressure within the brake line.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.