- Date
- September 11, 1983, 14:25 local (19:25 UTC)
- Place
- Plainview, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N29561Partenavia P68C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830911047799A
- Case key
- 20762
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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 plt was executing a high speed pass over the rwy at about 250 ft AGL. The plt then began a rapid pull-up & both wings separated just outboard of the eng nacelles. Reconstruction of the sequence from a videotape revealed that the acft's speed at the time of the wing separations was 220 KTS. Vne for the acft is 193 KTS. It was calculated that, at 220 KTS & an 8 deg nose-up pitch, the 'g' load at the time of the wing separations would have been 8.3 g's.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29561
- Reported as
- Partenavia P68C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 266
- Airframe hours
- 342
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Windward Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 17, 1983 · 37 hours before
- Airport
- PVW · Hale County
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LBB, 45 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.