- Date
- July 2, 1983, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Brooksville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9103APiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30916
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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 a tree during an aborted takeoff when the plt realized that the airspeed was not registering. During the abort, directional control was lost and the acft veer to the left. Inspection revealed the airspeed indicatormalfunctioned due to a wasp nest inside the pitot tube which was not readily apparent to inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9103A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-82A0087
- Airframe hours
- 300
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- American Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 21, 1983 · 289 hours before
- Airport
- BKV · Hernando County, runway 20, 5,000 × ft, concrete
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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8 total · 8 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 86 °F
Other investigations on N9103A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.