- Date
- December 3, 1988, 17:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Tomball, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2379VPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881203052369A
- Case key
- 22757
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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 airplane was being used for touch and go landings by an instructor and a low time student. It was on a base leg to land to the south when the instructor told the tower she had lost the engine and was going down. There were no witnesses to the accident. The student survived but did not remember the flight. No problems were found with the engine or fuel system which would have prevented the engine from producing enough power to prevent a forced landing. The propeller came off the crankshaft at impact. Marks on the six propeller flange bushing indicated the propeller had been loose for an undetermined length of time. The flange bushing had been overstressed and the flanged ends separated from the bushings. The bushings came out of the crankshaft at impact. The field where the aircraft came to rest was surrounded by trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2379V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A0060
- Airframe hours
- 2,515
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Travel Air
- Registered owner
- Travland Aero Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · November 30, 1988 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- DWH
- Airport
- DWH · David Wayne Hawks Mem., runway 17R, 7,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 855 total · 788 as pilot in command · 202 in the last 90 days · 81 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH, 1 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.