- Date
- September 1, 1978
- Place
- Prairie City, SD · PRAIRIE CITY, SD
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N3917KPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report October 16, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780901028189A
- Case key
- 140143
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2491 78/9/1 PRAIRIE CITY,SD PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 23, 85 TOTAL TIME - 1250 N3917K PX- 0 0 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CARR DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PRAIRIE CITY,SD BOWMAN,ND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) WEATHER - HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 98 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- DENSITY ALTITUDE 5800FT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3917K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Carr
N3917KRegistered now · Piper PA-28-140Airframe modelPiper PA-28-140Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.