- Date
- August 23, 1984, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lorenzo, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2397YPiper PA-36-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840823045809A
- Case key
- 21441
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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
After completion of a swath run the acft turned right and then left before it descended to the ground in a left bank and nose down attitude. Plt stated that the acft would not recover from the left turn when full right stick travel was applied. The acft was purchased 2 days prior to accident date. According to the pt the acft was out of rig and required movement of control stick halfway to the right to fly straight and level. Four flights were made by the plt with the acft in this condition. The plt did not complete an NTSB 6120.1 form as requested by the FAA coordinator. Because of this, much of the data needed to complete the 6102.4 is missing and coded unk/nr.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2397Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-36-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36-8160023
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- George Cunningham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LBB, 20 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.