- Date
- May 17, 1986, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Enterprise, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25737Piper PA-38
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860517017889A
- Case key
- 7103
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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.
Analysis
During the touchdown landing phase on runway 23, the aircraft veered off the left side and crashed following an attempted go-around. The pilot applied full power, but was unable to clear a tree line off the departure end. As the pilot elected to abort, the aircraft collided with a ditch causing substantial structural damage. The pilot did not report any aircraft malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25737
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-81A0068
- Airframe hours
- 1,148
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235 SERIES, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carey E. Slay
- Registered owner
- Mac-Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 29, 1986 · 31 hours before
- Airport
- EDN · Enterprise, runway 23, 3,500 × 80 ft, macadam
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 7 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DHN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.