- Date
- September 24, 1983, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Encampment, WY
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N3770PPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830924074089A
- Case key
- 16004
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
A low pass was made over a fishing pond so the front seat plt could wave at his father. According to the plt's father, the pass was below the level of the tree tops. In attempting to pull up sharply to avoid the trees, the acft was banked steeply and stalled. The acft then hit an unoccuppied house and crashed into a tree. The rear seat plt was the owner-operator of the acft. The front seat plt had about 2200 hrs total flt time & a 'considerable amout of time' in a PA-18-150 since he was a former Alaska bush plt. The front seat plt is presumed to have been at the controls.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3770P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-4654
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David Gene Pennock
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SAA · Saratoga, WY
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 300 in this make and model · 240 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RWL, 48 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.
Other investigations on N3770P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.