- Date
- May 19, 1988, 10:22 local (17:22 UTC)
- Place
- Green Valley, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2326APiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880519015109A
- Case key
- 25833
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to accomplish the proper stall recovery procedures allowing the stall to develop into a spin. Contributing to this accident was the lack of training in spin recovery.
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Stall - performedFactor
Remedial action - excessiveCause
Stall/spin - inadvertentFactor
Inadequate trainingFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2326A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 78A 0641
- Airframe hours
- 5,951
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hudkins Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 22, 1988 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- TUS · Tucson, AZ
- Airport
- TUS · Tucson Intl
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 39 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUS, 23 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.