- Date
- August 27, 1987, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Macclesfield, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N89201Piper PA-25-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7254
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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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 maintainedCause
Stall/mush - inadvertentCause
Maneuver - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
Plt ind that he was in procedure turn-around for spraying soybeans. Acft stalled and recovery initiated. Acft entered secondary stall and collided with trees. Examination of eng and acft did not disclose any pre-impact malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89201
- Reported as
- Piper PA-25-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 255383
- Airframe hours
- 28,560
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Pitt Spraying,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Pitt Spraying Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 4, 1987 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- PRV · Farmville, NC
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 4,500 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 7 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F