- Date
- December 22, 1992, 19:25 local (Dec 23, 1992, 00:25 UTC)
- Place
- Kokomo, IN
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9206BPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921222051119A
- Case key
- 15640
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Probable cause
Failure to maintain aircraft control, and spatial disorientation of the pilot.
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 private pilot, who was not instrument rated, descended into fog at his destination airport while making a VFR approach. Pilot stated he attempted to make a left turn and that was the last thing he remembered. The airplane crashed one mile north of the destination airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9206B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2841336
- Airframe hours
- 26
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Beene, Charles W., doing business as Glenndale Air Service
- Registered owner
- Beene, Charles W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- RCR · Rochester, IN
- Airport
- OKK · Kokomo Municipal, runway 23, 5,201 × 150 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 512 total · 56 in this make and model · 412 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GUS, 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.