- Date
- May 28, 1992, 21:00 local (May 29, 1992, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Gardner, ND
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6541ZPiper PA-25-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920528016739A
- Case key
- 15257
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall with insufficient altitude for recovery.
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
During aerial application, the pilot had almost completed a reversal turn and was beginning to roll out for the swath run when the aircraft stalled. The aircraft struck the ground in a wings level attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6541Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-25-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-2080
- Airframe hours
- 2,761
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-B2C5, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Scott A. Thompson, doing business as Thompson Farm Air
- Registered owner
- Skroch, Ed Jr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 1992 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- 0ND2 · Grandin, ND
- Destination
- NONE
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
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,800 total · 80 in this make and model · 1,700 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAR, 20 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.