- Date
- November 16, 1992, 17:16 local (23:16 UTC)
- Place
- Joshua, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9614SChampion 7GCAA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921116046819A
- Case key
- 18617
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the approach and his inadequate visual lookout.
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
Witnesses stated that the airplane developed a sink rate during the final approach and struck wires at the end of the runway. It subsequently impacted the ground. The pilot stated that he could not remember what happened due to the head injuries he sustained in the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9614S
- Reported as
- Champion 7GCAA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46
- Airframe hours
- 1,350
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A1A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Toomer, Robert T.
- Registered owner
- Champion Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- F18 · Cleburne, TX
- Airport
- NONE · Buffalo Chips, runway 18, 5,400 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 566 total · 124 in this make and model · 528 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 180° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 25 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.
Other investigations on N9614S · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.