- Date
- September 26, 1988, 18:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bertrand, NE
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3390MPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880926041279A
- Case key
- 34645
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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 plt rprtd that while practicing takeoffs & ldgs, he believed he had excessive ground speed & elected to go around. He said he waited to long to go around, so he decided to fly under power lines, located at the dep end of the strip. Shortly after lift-off, the acft stalled, drifted to the left & hit the edge of a roadway which was also at the end of the strip. The roadway was about 4 feet higher than the rwy surface. The plt said the airstrip was slightly downhill to the north & the wind was calm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3390M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12 2055
- Airframe hours
- 2,107
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ray'S Aircraft Repair Inc.
- Registered owner
- Ray'S Aircraft Repair Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 14, 1988 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- 63NE
- Airport
- 63NE · Bertrand, runway 35, 2,200 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 161 total · 81 in this make and model · 97 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EAR, 40 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.