- Date
- August 30, 1984, 13:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Wailuku Maui, HI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N835FCPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840830044569A
- Case key
- 24006
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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
The acft collided with rising terrain during a pleasure flt around Hawaii. The plt turned from the shorline inland to look at a waterfall. He started a climb from 500 ft to clear the 2000 ft level. The plt does not remember any of the accident sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N835FC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-22226
- Airframe hours
- 6,745
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dillingham Aviation
- Registered owner
- Afa Honolulu, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 23, 1984 · 846 hours before
- Departed
- HDH · Mokuleia, HI
- Destination
- OGG · Kahului, HI
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 5° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.