- Date
- May 28, 1991, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Albany, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N95041Piper PA28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910528017619A
- Case key
- 15077
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Probable cause
The cfi's failure to take timely and proper remedial action when the student pilot lost directional control during the takeoff roll. Factors in the accident are the tall grass edging the runway, and the student pilot's lack of total experience.
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 flight instructor stated that the student pilot was performing a soft field takeoff on the grass runway. He reported that during the takeoff roll, at a point about 1500 feet down the grass runway, there was a 'loss in RPM and airspeed.' Post-accident examination revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunction of the powerplant. An examination of the landing gear tracks revealed the airplane veered off the left side of the mowed grass strip into taller vegetation at a point approximately 1500 feet down the runway. The takeoff ground run continued past the end of the runway, across an alfalfa field, until it struck a drainage ditch and the landing gear separated from the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95041
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-25781
- Airframe hours
- 3,709
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Skalicky, Norm, doing business as Norm'S Leasing
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 2, 1991 · 12 hours before
- Airport
- 4MNO · Skalicky
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
- 72
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 19,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STC, 23 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.
Other investigations on N95041 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.