- Date
- October 13, 1992, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grove City, PA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N201MAPiper PA-28
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37258
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Probable cause
The pilot raised the flaps prematurely, resulting in an inadvertent stall at to low an altitude to allow recovery.
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
Shortly after take off at an altitude of approximately 150 feet AGL, the pilot started to retract the flaps, the airspeed dropped and the stall warning light came on. The pilot said there was no runway remaining. When he got close to the ground he attempted to flare, the airplane landed hard and the landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N201MA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-26771
- Airframe hours
- 3,073
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Greg Thompson
- Registered owner
- Greg Thompson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1992 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- 29D
- Airport
- 29D · Grove City, runway 27, 4,400 × 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 628 total · 75 in this make and model · 570 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 37 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 5 knots, gusting 10
Other investigations on N201MA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.