- Date
- March 31, 1990, 15:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- Durant, OK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7174RPiper PA28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900331011279A
- Case key
- 23119
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed (vso) and subsequent stall of the aircraft at an altitude from which recovery was not possible. A factor in the accident was the pilot's improper procedures for the landing approach.
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 newly certificated private pilot was executing a practice short field landing from a practice NDB approach. The second pilot on board reported that, at approximately 15 to 20 feet AGL over the runway threshold, the aircraft nose suddenly pitched down. The aircraft impacted the runway nose first and collapsed the landing gear aft. The pilot had stated that he had trimmed the aircraft to a 'fairly nose high attitude' and that he had attempted to recover from the descent by pulling the control yoke aft. The second pilot reported that the airspeed was approximately 65 knots during the last observation on short final.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7174R
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-21884
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carrington, John
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 1F4 · Madil, OK
- Airport
- DUA · Durant Eaker Field, runway 35, 5,000 × 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 208 total · 50 in this make and model · 162 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.