- Date
- May 18, 1991, 11:47 local (15:47 UTC)
- Place
- Ravenna, OH
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7808PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910518016349A
- Case key
- 36793
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
Failure of the instructor pilot (CFI) to assure that adequate airspeed was maintained, after maneuvering (turning) for spacing behind another aircraft, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/mush. Factors related to the accident were: the improperly planned approach and the cfi's lack of flight experience in the make and model of aircraft.
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 wife of the airplane owner was receiving instruction in a 'pinch hitter' course. A guideline for instructors of this course referenced maximum bank angles of 30 degrees and to not frighten the student. After one touch and go, the airplane was observed to enter a steep 360 degree turn for apparent spacing behind another aircraft. The aircraft then descended and disappear behind trees. Witnesses heard a surge of power before impact. An exam of the flight instructor's (cfi's) logbook showed he had not logged flight time in the make and model of airplane, though he had flown on a previous flight with the owner. The log book was current through two days before the accident. No preimpact part failure or malfunction of the aircraft or engine was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7808P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-3028
- Airframe hours
- 4,981
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- William C. Jaeck
- Registered owner
- William C. Jaeck
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 21, 1990 · 128 hours before
- Airport
- 29G · Portage County, runway 9, 3,500 × 75 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
- 43
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,401 total · 1 in this make and model · 1,306 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- 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.
Other investigations on N7808P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.