- Date
- July 29, 1988, 09:55 local (16:55 UTC)
- Place
- Healdsburg, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N91352Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880729028599A
- Case key
- 26070
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Probable cause
Solo student pilot failed to maintain airspeed above the stall speed during the go around attempt, thereby losing control of the airplane and stalling and mushing until colliding with a tree.
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 student was on her third supervised solo and had completed two touch and go landings. She stated that on her last approach, which was to be a full stop, the acft was low and slow, so she decided to make a go-around. She applied full power and raised the nose of the airplane. However, the left wing dropped and the aircraft mushed into a tree & crashed in a vineyard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91352
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A019
- Airframe hours
- 3,629
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Redwood Aviation
- Registered owner
- Karl & Elaine Oehlman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 22, 1988 · 17 hours before
- Airport
- 031 · Healdsburg Muni, runway 13, 2,707 × 45 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.