- Date
- October 14, 1991, 06:15 local (11:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sioux Center, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 4 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1FYPiper PA-46-310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911014046519A
- Case key
- 15333
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's not maintaining directional control and not performing an aborted takeoff. Windshear was a factor relating to the accident.
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 high performance single engine corporate airplane commenced its pre-dawn takeoff roll with a left front, quartering, crosswind of approximately 25 mph. Passengers stated that the airplane lifted off earlier than they've been accustomed to. After liftoff, the airplane contacted the ground, departed the left side of the runway, and struck a wind sock pole and a wind tee. The airplane was reestablished on the runway and ran off the departure end. After traveling approximately 1000 feet from the departure end, the airplane struck a tree with its left wing, separating it from the fuselage at the wing root. The airplane then collided with a road embankment went over it, and came to rest in a plowed field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1FY
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46-8408008
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-BE, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Interstate Elect. & Eng. Co.
- Registered owner
- Interstate Elect. & Eng. Co.
- Destination
- CPS · St. Louis, MO
- Airport
- SOY · Sioux Center Muni., runway 35, 3,002 × 50 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 315° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- SUX, 44 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.