- Date
- November 23, 1990, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sherman, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8660WPiper PA-28-235
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18057
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Probable cause
A pilot induced inadvertent stall.
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 private pilot was taking off to the north, on a 1700 foot grass strip, surrounded by medium sized scrub oak trees. The pilot said he achieved 35 feet AGL, attempted to pull up the nose to clear trees, and the stall warning horn sounded. The right wing struck a tree, and the plane rebounded across a road to the left. The left wing was severed when it struck another oak tree. The plane landed in a field with the left wing stub down. The nose gear folded and the entire tail section was torn off.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8660W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-235
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-10186
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A4B5, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cody Aero Sales
- Destination
- F46 · Rockwall, TX
- Airport
- NONE · Caradine, runway 36, 1,700 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,550 total · 200 in this make and model · 1,340 as pilot in command · 77 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
Other investigations on N8660W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.