- Date
- April 28, 1993, 09:25 local (14:25 UTC)
- Place
- Palacios, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2880ZPiper PA-18A-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930428010989A
- Case key
- 18736
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing. A factor was the hidden culvert.
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
Following tochdown on an open field the aircraft struck a hidden culvert and nosed over to the inverted position.
Factual narrative
On April 28, 1993 at approximately 0925 central daylight time (CDT), a Piper PA 18A 150, N2880Z, was substantially damaged during landing near Palacios, Texas. The private pilot, also the owner, was not injured. Weather for the local flight was visual meteorological conditions.
During an interview with a Federal Aviation Administration inspector the pilot reported that during the landing roll, following a landing to an open field, the airplane struck a drainage ditch and the airplane nosed over to the inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2880Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18A-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-7050
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kubecka, William H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- NONE
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PSX, 7 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 N2880Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.