- Date
- June 7, 1992, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Groom, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2MPPokorney Smith Mini DSA-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18513
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of the unsuitable landing area. Factors were the weather condition and the road sign.
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.
On ground/water collision with object
Weather condition - drizzle/mistFactor
Precautionary landing - performed
On ground/water collision with object
Object - signFactor
Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area - selectedCause
Analysis
The pilot executed a precautionary landing onto a farm road after encountering light rain/drizzle. During the landing roll, the airplane struck a road sign.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2MP
- Reported as
- Pokorney Smith Mini DSA-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- J2
- Airframe hours
- 1,113
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pokorney, Merle L.
- Registered owner
- Pokorney, Merle L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 16, 1992 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- F91 · Weatherford, OK
- Destination
- TDW · Amarillo, TX
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 13,384 total · 1,033 in this make and model · 13,274 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AMA, 35 nm away