- Date
- July 15, 1990, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, MO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N555TTPiper PA28-151
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900715025779A
- Case key
- 35017
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Probable cause
Aircraft control not maintained resulting in a stall/mush by the PIC.
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 being observed flying low, buzzing, landing on a sandbar, and giving rides to friends, the pvt pilot departed. He made a steep pull-up turnaround, failed to flare, then collided with the sandbar. The aircraft careened into the main channel of the river. The plt was able to extricate himself from the aircraft before it sank. The aircraft was not recovered from the river and is considered lost.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N555TT
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-151
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7515241
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Central Missouri Aviation, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- JEF · Jefferson City, MO
- Destination
- JEF
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 346 total · 24 in this make and model · 292 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COU, 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.