PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Incursion Taxiway; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport
Aircraft; Weather
After takeoff from ZZZ; flying the [offset] upwind we have experienced a complete power loss. I tried to do a turn back to the runaway for landing and [advised ATC]. We got hard landing on the taxiway. At the turn we got into the wind shear situation; the plane just went down and had a very hard landing. The flightpath of the [offset] upwind at ZZZ does not allow for the straight out landing in a case of the engine failure.
Pilot reported being unaware of the reason for the engine failure.
PA-28 pilot reported an engine failure after takeoff led to a return to the departure airport and a hard landing.