- Date
- August 9, 1985, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Abbeville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7475WPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850809037769A
- Case key
- 6632
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft crashed into trees & the ground after going into a left turn during a go-around initiated after a bouncy landing. After power was added for the go-around the acft seemed to be uncontrolled so that the CFI on the ground, who had just exited the acft after several landings, used a hand-held radio to tell the student plt to level his wings. There was no response from the acft which continued to turn into the trees. An autopsy performed on the plt after the acc showed that the heart attack had occurred and it is believed to have incapacitated the plt just after the go-around was initiated.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7475W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-1384
- Airframe hours
- 2,100
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas C. Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 3, 1984
- Departed
- A03 · Abbeville, SC
- Airport
- A03 · Davis Field, runway 8, 2,240 × 40 ft
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARD, 27 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.