- Date
- December 5, 1984, 15:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- New Castle, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N24880Piper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841205073869A
- Case key
- 35657
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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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
TotalFactor
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankmentFactor
Nose over
Analysis
On takeoff roll, the student pilot allowed the acft to drift left off of the runway. Acft collided with a dirt embankment and flipped inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24880
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-80A0016
- Airframe hours
- 1,221
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Haski Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 2G7 · New Castle, runway 5, 4,010 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.