- Date
- October 13, 1986, 00:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pell City, AL
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4576RPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861013055409A
- Case key
- 7273
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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather forecast - disregardedFactor
Flight into known adverse weather - continuedCause
In flight collision with object
Terrain condition - uphill
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
The aircraft departed albany Georgia for fenton Missouri without a flight plan. VFR not recommended had been given to the commercial, CFI, instrument rated pilot twice during the day. The wreckage was found two months later on the side of a mountain in Alabama. The aircraft had burned.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4576R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2821318
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gary W. Gosh
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ABY · Albany, GA
- Destination
- Fenton, MO
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.