- Date
- September 2, 1988, 15:48 local (22:48 UTC)
- Place
- Temecula, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4328YPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880902036659A
- Case key
- 25858
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to properly initiate a go-around during an aborted landing. The loss of directional control during the landing, failure to return to the runway for the aborted takeoff, and not establishing the proper rate of climb due to high density altitude and the failure to raise the flaps are considered factors in the accident.
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
After landing his aircraft on the 3023 foot asphalt runway, the pilot lost directional control and the aircraft ran off the left side of the runway approximately 635 from the threshold. The pilot was able to regain control of the aircraft and initiated an aborted landing from the off runway location. The aircraft overflew another aircraft that was approximately 200 feet ahead of the point where the aborted landing was initiated. Then the acft collided with a metal ladder attached to 24 foot high commercial building in his flight path.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4328Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 288416024
- Airframe hours
- 2,089
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D36, 161 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Calstate Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Welch, Preston F.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 18, 1988 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- LGB · Long Beach, CA
- Destination
- 2L0 · Temecula, CA
- Airport
- 2LO · Rancho California, runway 12, 3,023 × 60 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 13 in this make and model · 47 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RIV, 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.