- Date
- November 21, 1992, 01:43 local (07:43 UTC)
- Place
- Brookfield, WI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1892JPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921121047609A
- Case key
- 15579
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Probable cause
Spatial disorientation, and failure to maintain proper glidepath.
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
Pilot returning from a night cross country flight cancelled her IFR flight plan and proceeded visually to her destination, an uncontrolled airport. The runway used at the destination airport was narrow, sloped uphill, had a displaced threshold, low intensity runway lighting, no VASI, and was surrounded by dark featureless terrain. The airplane was found the following day in a swamp one-quarter mile from the approach end of the runway. The aircraft had descended into trees, and crashed in the swamp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1892J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-24337
- Airframe hours
- 1,884
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brookfield Pilot Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Brookfield Pilot Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1992 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- GRB · Green Bay, WI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 02C · Capitol Drive, runway 21, 3,555 × 45 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 347 total · 171 in this make and model · 275 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 140° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MKE, 12 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.