- Date
- July 12, 1990, 06:05 local (12:05 UTC)
- Place
- Clarkston, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9980PPiper PA-36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900712025499A
- Case key
- 17969
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Probable cause
Jammed ailerons resultant from the collision with crops.
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 commercial pilot was landing on a gravel road. During landing roll, he saw tall vegetation and attempted a go around. The right spray boom contacted the vegetation at lift off and the boom was stripped off the wing. The pilot said he was in flight, full power, with no control of the ailerons. The plane made an uncommanded left bank to 45 degrees, at which point the pilot reduced power and the plane struck the terrain left wing first. The plane cartwheeled and tore the engine, cowling and nose framework from the fuselage. The plane came to rest facing opposite of the flight path.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9980P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36-7560093
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-720-A1B, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 137
- Operator
- Larsen, Wayne C.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- U27 · Tremonton, UT
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 38
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 8,543 total · 3,513 in this make and model · 8,423 as pilot in command · 209 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.