- Date
- July 19, 1990, 08:24 local (16:24 UTC)
- Place
- Bettles, AK
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8508PPiper PA-24-400
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900719030739A
- Case key
- 5406
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's failure to attain airspeed during takeoff.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not attainedCause
Stall - inadvertent
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
A soft field takeoff was made to avoid gravel strikes. The airplane stalled after lift-off.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8508P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-400
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2688
- Airframe hours
- 1,535
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-720-A1A, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cyrille Dennis Moore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 1990 · 20 hours before
- Destination
- OTZ · Kotzebue, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- BTT · Bettles, runway 19, 5,200 × 100 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 316 total · 106 in this make and model · 256 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BTT, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.