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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Roswell, NM · February 5, 1988

Date
February 5, 1988 · 14:58 local
Place
Roswell, NM
Airport
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N8471F
Reported as
Piper PA28181
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A4M
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
3
Pilot’s flight hours
122 total12 in this make and model12 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Indicates VFR pilot flew into snow showers and fog under 600 ft AGL lost control and crashed at a high velocity.

As the FAA filed it

INDICATES VFR PILOT FLEW INTO SNOW SHOWERS AND FOG UNDER 600 FT AGL LOST CONTROL AND CRASHED AT A HIGH VELOCITY.