- Date
- June 21, 1981
- Place
- Rapid City, SD · RAPID CITY, SD
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4853TPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report January 26, 1982
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810621033979A
- Case key
- 125292
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3143 81/6/21 RAPID CITY,SD PIPER PA-28 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE UNK/NR, 300 TIME - 1330 N4853T PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LIEN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION RAWLINS,WY RAPID CITY,SD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND NONE LEFT CROSS WIND 248-292 DEGREES TEMPERATURE-F WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES 72 260 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 21 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- STALLED APRX 15FT ABV RWY,FLAPS FULL DWN.L X-WND GSTG 25KTS.PART OR NO FLAPS RCMDD W STRONG X-WND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4853T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Lien
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.