- Date
- February 4, 1984, 18:16 local (23:16 UTC)
- Place
- Hoboken, GA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8771DPiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30966
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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
While on base leg for landing, the forward right wing strut failed causing the right wing to separate. The acft then entered an uncontrolled descent & crashed. The non-certificated plt owned the acft. He had not complied with airworthiness directive 77-03-08. The last annual maint insp was performed on 12-04-81. AD 77-03-08 refers to detection and correction of excessive corrosion of wing lift struts. Metallurgical analysis revealed that the forward lift strut tube wall had been significantly reduced by corrosive attack on the interior surface. Other failures of the wing were secondary.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8771D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-5958
- Airframe hours
- 2,792
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth Elmo Herrin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1981 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- AYS · Waycross, GA
- Airport
- Hoboken, runway 9, 1,800 × 50 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 25 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AYS, 23 nm away