- Date
- September 9, 1990, 14:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Quarryville, PA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4268EPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900909053089A
- Case key
- 36739
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Probable cause
The pilot in commands failure to maintain airspeed while climbing to avoid wires.
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 pilot was circling in the area of a company picnic. A witness said, 'he came through the field toward some powerlines and pulled up at a steep angle to avoid them. He crashed in a cow field bouncing before stopping.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4268E
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 38-78A0516
- Airframe hours
- 4,375
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- New Garden Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Unknown · August 30, 1989 · 24 hours before
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 100 total · 100 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.