- Date
- June 2, 1990, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wadsworth, OH
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8760NPiper PA28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900602022899A
- Case key
- 14533
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Probable cause
The failure of the certified flight instructor and the dual student to maintain a visual lookout during the final approach to the airport.
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 accident airplane collided with an electrical utility pole during a final approach to an airport. According to persons at the airport the student pilot had flown into the airport, picked up a flight instructor, and then departed for a period of local flight instruction. Witnesses to the accident observed the airplane in steady state flight until it struck the pole. The runway is served by a VASI which was operational at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8760N
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-25581
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ralph D. Brown
- Airport
- 3G3 · Wadsworth, runway 20, 3,525 × 75 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 10,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Observed at
- CAK, 15 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.