- Date
- April 8, 1982, 18:00 local (Apr 9, 1982, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Spokane, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N80769Piper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820408008449A
- Case key
- 72670
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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.
Analysis
Student pilot/copilot reset the aircraft clock in anticipation of the time zone change that would occur in flight. This caused the pilot to think he had another hour of flight time. In addition the fuel gage was found to show fuel in the right tank when all fuel had been drained. During the forced landing on a street the left wing collided with a mailbox and the right landing gear was sheared off upon striking a concrete culvert.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80769
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8090066
- Airframe hours
- 589
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry S. Baker
- Registered owner
- James G. Billingsley
- Departed
- SFF · Rock Springs, WY
- Destination
- RKS · Spokane, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 3,100 total · 40 in this make and model · 3,000 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Temperature
- 115 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFF, 5 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.