- Date
- February 11, 1983, 19:15 local (Feb 12, 1983, 01:15 UTC)
- Place
- Wichita, KS
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8981CPiper PA-28R-200
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830211004949A
- Case key
- 33317
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft was cleared to make the approach and to descend not below 2300 ft. the pilot descended from 3000 after he reported passing hance, the final appoach fix. He descended to 2300 ft at 500 ft a minute and leveled the acft and lowered the landing gear. The pilot said that at the point 2 NM from the arpt where the descent to 1820 ft is to be begun he lowered one notch of flaps and hit the ground. The crash site is one and one quarter miles from the arpt on the final approach course.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8981C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R7635187
- Airframe hours
- 1,276
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Adolph E. Reiss
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 18, 1982 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- ADH · Ada, OK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 3KM · Colonel James Jabara, runway 18, 2,800 × 40 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,683 total · 330 in this make and model · 1,583 as pilot in command · 52 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAB, 8 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.