- Date
- November 8, 1989, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cincinnati, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N601LCPiper 601P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891108044769A
- Case key
- 14589
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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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain adequate airspeed while maneuvering to circle and land, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Factors related to the accident were: the excessive maneuver (steep turn) and terrain conditions (road and curb) short of the runway.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N601LC
- Reported as
- Piper 601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 61P-0538-228
- Airframe hours
- 1,696
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-S1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hangars Plus, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LAN · Lansing, MI
- Destination
- I77
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- I77 · Cincinnati-Blue Ash, runway 24, 3,500 × 75 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 260 in this make and model · 2,036 as pilot in command · 43 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LUK, 9 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.