- Date
- August 8, 1984, 14:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Selbyville, DE
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N10468Piper L-21-A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11107
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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
At the conclusion of towing banners with no pax on board, the acft was landed and topped off with fuel. The plt then reentered the acft and an additional employee got in the rear seat with the intension of flying to a nearby airport for a plt exchange. During takeoff the acft was observed to gradually climb off the turf rwy to an alt slightly higher than a building off the right side of the departure end of the active rwy. It was then seen to pull up and collide with telephone cables off the end of the rwy. Pwr lines located immediately in back of the cables did not show any signs of damage. Temperature at the time of the accident was about 90 degrees and the density alt of aprx 2100 ft. no evidenceof any preimpact malfunction was uncovered during the engine assembly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10468
- Reported as
- Piper L-21-A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18937
- Airframe hours
- 5,885
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carmean, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 20, 1984 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- Selbyville, DE
- Destination
- N80 · Ocean City, MD
- Airport
- ON7 · Warrington, runway 32, 2,099 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,084 total · 911 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBY, 17 nm away
Other investigations on N10468 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.