- Date
- September 30, 1992, 14:57 local (20:57 UTC)
- Place
- Roswell, NM
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2372VPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920930039329A
- Case key
- 18572
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain the correct airspeed on final approach and allowed the aircraft to stall.
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
A student pilot on a solo cross country flight stalled the airplane on final approach. The airplane impacted the ground in a nose down attitude in a slight right turn.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2372V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A00029
- Airframe hours
- 2,238
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2A, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Southwest Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Southwest Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 3, 1992 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- LRU · Las Cruces, NM
- Destination
- ROW
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ROW · Roswell Air Center, runway 17, 10,000 × 200 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 40 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ROW, 1 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.