- Date
- October 13, 1991, 08:12 local (12:12 UTC)
- Place
- Boxboro, MA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N26697Grumman AA-5A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911013046029A
- Case key
- 37089
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to perform an adequate preflight to remove ice/frost from the aircraft wings.
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
During preflight for a cross country flight, the pilot failed to remove an accumulation of ice and frost from the aircraft. The flight departed at a gross weight at or near maximum and settled into a grove of trees approximately one quarter mile off the end of the departure runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26697
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-5A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5A0653
- Airframe hours
- 5,278
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2G, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stone Aviation Service
- Registered owner
- Stone Aviation Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 6B6 · Stow, MA
- Airport
- 6B6 · Minuteman, runway 3, 2,600 × 50 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 250 total · 40 in this make and model · 205 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 34 °F
- Observed at
- 6B6, 1 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.