- Date
- June 5, 1981
- Place
- Chapel Hill, NC · CHAPEL HILL, NC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 3 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4414APiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report October 19, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810605035859A
- Case key
- 125158
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1872 81/6/5 CHAPEL HILL,NC PIPER PA-22 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 41, 226 TIME - 0920 N4414A PX- 0 3 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 163 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HORACE WILLIAMS DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CHAPEL HILL,NC OCRACOKE,NC TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: SPIN TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED REMARKS- CLIMBED STEEPLY AFTER LIFTOFF.STALL/SPIN WITHIN AIRPORT BOUNDARY.HEAVILY LOADED,BUT WITHIN LIMITS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4414A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Horace Williams
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.