- Date
- November 24, 1988, 14:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Weatherford, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5337SCessna 337A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881124051789A
- Case key
- 22755
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain minimum required airspeed for slow flight (vs), resulting in a stall with insufficient altitude to recover. A contributing factor was the Piper pilot's unannounced fly-by, which diverted the Cessna pilot's attention.
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 pilot was descending his airplane while in slow flight with 10 degrees flaps in a downwind track to look at property that he planned to purchase. A second airplane flew by his airplane at the low altitude and banked away sharply. The accident airplane's wings wobbled, the nose dropped and it impacted into an open wheat field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5337S
- Reported as
- Cessna 337A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 337-0437
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-C&D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Grady E. David
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- WEA · Weatherford, TX
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
- 60
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 700 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MWL, 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.