- Date
- April 22, 1990, 19:00 local (Apr 23, 1990, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bountiful, UT
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8126WPiper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900422010559A
- Case key
- 17919
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the dual student. Factors in the accident were the premature lift-off by dual student, the rough terrain and the fence.
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
During initial takeoff on an instructional flight, with the 13 hour total time student conducting the takeoff, the aircraft became airborne then settled back to the runway. The 509 hour total time flight instructor took control and aborted the takeoff but was unable to stop on the remaining runway. The aircraft exited the end of the runway, went through two fences, across a road and came to rest in a parking lot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8126W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 288090153
- Engine
- Lycoming O360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stead, Robert T.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- BTF
- Destination
- BTF
- Airport
- BTF · Sky Paar Airport, runway 34, 4,700 × 60 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 509 total · 40 in this make and model · 393 as pilot in command · 253 in the last 90 days · 105 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- SLC, 10 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.