- Date
- June 25, 1988, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5113WPiper PA-28-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880625023769A
- Case key
- 17486
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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.
Analysis
The low time private plt and his non-pilot wife were practicing touch and go landings. The plt used the right seat and his wife used the left seat. While on final apch, the plt recognized that the airplane was too high, added full flaps and cut the power. The airplane entered a high sink rate. By the time the pilot recognized it, the plane was too low. Full power was added too late to arrest the descent. The airplane struck a fence and impacted the ground short of the runway. The density altitude was 8,000 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5113W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28 138
- Airframe hours
- 3,041
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Decoste, Al
- Registered owner
- Decoste, Albert W., Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 26, 1988 · 701 hours before
- Departed
- OGD
- Destination
- OGD
- Airport
- OGD · Ogden Municipal, runway 16, 5,349 × 200 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 61 total · 61 in this make and model · 31 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGD, 1 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.