- Date
- May 24, 1983, 19:15 local (May 25, 1983, 01:15 UTC)
- Place
- Canon City, CO
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2433LPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830524020729A
- Case key
- 15987
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall/spin - inadvertent
Supervision - inadequateCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
During base turn the acft stalled, rolled over & spun to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2433L
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-79A0701
- Airframe hours
- 1,116
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Nosh Tarachand
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 11, 1983 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- 1V6 · Canon City, CO
- Airport
- 1V6 · Fremont County, runway 11, 5,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
N2433LRegistration cancelled Oct 18, 2012 · Piper PA-38-112Airframe modelPiper PA-38-112Engine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,187 total · 149 in this make and model · 1,020 as pilot in command · 104 in the last 90 days · 57 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PUB, 30 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.