- Date
- February 25, 1991, 16:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Davant, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7388JPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23303
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Probable cause
The power loss for undetermined reasons. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
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
During an instructional flight the student pilot was demonstrating slow flight to a landing stall at 2,500 feet above ground level. During the recovery phase, the student pilot increased the throttle; however, the engine did not respond. The instructor pilot took the controls and elected to make a forced landing. On short final to an open field, the airplane wing clipped a tree. An inspection of the engine revealed no anomalies that could have caused the partial loss of engine power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7388J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-24750
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Harold Butchart
- Departed
- NB6 · New Orleans, LA
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
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,308 total · 279 in this make and model · 425 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg