- Date
- April 3, 1987, 10:27 local (15:27 UTC)
- Place
- Rhine, GA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N47887Piper PA-28R-201
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870403010949A
- Case key
- 7286
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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
The non-instrumented rated plt continued into an area of known wx conditions. The left wing separated in flight. Failure of it was typical of overload fractures. The wreckage was scattered over an area about 3500 feet long and 200 feet wide.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47887
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7837012
- Airframe hours
- 2,160
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joel Hunter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 2, 1986
- Departed
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Destination
- Memphis, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,650 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.