Jeffersonville, IN, USA
N2125T
Piper PA-28
The airplane sustained substantial damage when a deer hit the airplane during landing roll. The pilot reported the airplane had just touched down when a deer, running from right to left, struck the airplane near the propeller and the left fuselage/wing area. The airplane tracked down the centerline and then veered off the left side of the runway, ending in a ground loop. The pilot reported it was a dark night.
On July 27, 2001, at 2140 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28, N2125T, sustained substantial damage when a deer hit the airplane during landing roll. The 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight departed Bowman Field (LOU), Louisville, Kentucky, at 2000, and had flown a visual approach to runway 18 (5,500 feet by 100 feet, asphalt) Clark County Airport (JVY), Jeffersonville, Indiana. The instructor pilot and the dual student pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The pilot reported the airplane had just touched down when a deer, running from right to left, struck the airplane near the propeller and the left fuselage/wing area. The airplane tracked down the centerline and then veered off the left side of the runway, ending in a ground loop. The pilot reported it was a dark night.
The airplane was struck by deer during landing roll at night. A factor was the dark night.
Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database
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