- Date
- March 5, 1991, 19:00 local (Mar 6, 1991, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tulsa, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7120RPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910305004099A
- Case key
- 23307
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and altitude on final 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
During a visual approach to an airport the airplane struck a large tree during an attempted go-around due to the pilot losing airspeed and altitude. The tree strike resulted in the left wing being severed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7120R
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-21820
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Simmons, Jeleane A.
- Departed
- ADM · Ardmore, OK
- Airport
- 1H6 · Harvey Young, runway 17, 2,200 × 200 ft, gravel
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 138 total · 57 in this make and model · 98 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- TUL, 5 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.