- Date
- April 14, 1988, 10:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- Painesville, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N91371Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880414010169A
- Case key
- 7738
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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 CFI reported that while performing a simulated short field take-off the acft encountered a downdraft and settled into the trees. The CFI held his certificate for one month and the student plt had logged just over fifty hours. This airport was not approved for use by cfi's employed by the operator.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91371
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3881A0167
- Airframe hours
- 2,176
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Airspect Air, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Airspect Air, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 13, 1987 · 89 hours before
- Departed
- AKR · Akron, OH
- Airport
- 2G1 · Concord, runway 20, 2,200 × 45 ft, asphalt
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 888 total · 100 in this make and model · 808 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CGF, 25 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.