- Date
- June 14, 1990, 12:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Rosebud, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4843YPiper PA-25-260
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900614043699A
- Case key
- 22932
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Probable cause
Inadvertent stall/mush. A factor was: premature rotation.
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
Shortly after taking off from the 2,000 foot long agricultural airstrip, the airplane began to settle, and the pilot begin dumping his load of insecticide. The airplane mushed into an adjacent cotton field. Post impact fire consumed much of the wreckage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4843Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-25-260
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25-4642
- Airframe hours
- 2,729
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-G1A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Frazer, Edward
- Registered owner
- Edward K, Frazier
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 24, 1990 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- PRIV · Mart, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 53
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 6,300 total · 30 in this make and model · 1,400 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.