NYC93LA014 · Piper PA28-161
Piper PA28-161 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From Harrison County Airport (8G6) to 0I88 · ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OH
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC93LA014
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA28-161
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA28
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N8333T
- Operator
- Jack A. Hans · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Harrison County Airport (8G6), HARRISON COUNTY, OHTo 0I88 · ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OH
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
- Weather condition › Tailwind
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING A LANDING ON A 1200 FOOT GRASS RUNWAY, WITH A TAIL WIND OF 12 TO 25 KNOTS, THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO STOP THE AIRPLANE. THE AIRPLANE OVERRAN THE END OF THE RUNWAY, IMPACTED A FENCE, THEN A TREE AND NOSED OVER. THERE WAS NO KNOWN WEATHER BRIEF PRIOR TO DEPARTURE. THE PILOT DID RECEIVE CURRENT WINDS, IN FLIGHT, FROM A LOCAL AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER AND ELECTED TO LAND DOWN WIND.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING AND DECISION TO LAND ON A SHORT GRASS RUNWAY WITH A TAIL WIND. A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOTS FAILURE TO OBTAIN AND EVALUATE A WEATHER BRIEFING PRIOR TO THE FLIGHT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC93LA014
- Event ID
- 20001211X15942
- Case number
- NYC93LA014
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 34403552bb0fca5c0824ce3985cd57a6f6411b4c404c608f6611a03e85f7d284; retrieved 2026-09-23T02:33:10.692Z.