Piper PA34 N15412
25 November 2019 · Mount Pleasant, Texas, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 25 November 2019 at about 22:10 local time, a Piper PA34 registered N15412, operated by US Aviation Group LLC, was involved in an accident near Mount Pleasant, Texas, United States. 2 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 22:10
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, Texas, United States
- Nearest airport
- Mount Pleasant Rgnl (OSA)
- Coordinates
- 33.0942, -94.9614
- Aircraft
- Piper PA34
- Registration
- N15412
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1972
- Engines
- 2
- Operator
- US Aviation Group LLC
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Denton → Mount Pleasant
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- CEN20TA025
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Probable cause
The pilot's hard, bounced landing and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action, which resulted in a fracture of the nose landing gear mounting structure.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
During the instructional cross-country flight, the pilot receiving instruction was in the left seat and manipulating the flight controls. During the landing attempt, the airplane bounced and became airborne again with a nose-high pitch attitude. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and continued the landing. Witnesses observed the airplane land hard, bounce, then the nose gear collapsed and punctured the fuselage and the windscreen. The airplane slid on the runway and came to rest upright. A postaccident examination revealed that the nose landing gear mounting structure was fractured at the lower truss. The mount was displaced upward and punctured the fuselage. The nose tire was partially deflated. The damage to the mounting structure was consistent with a hard landing on the nose landing gear.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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