- Date
- October 31, 1982, 15:37 local (23:37 UTC)
- Place
- Cascade Locks, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6936PPiper PA-24-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821031056019A
- Case key
- 70155
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
Plt was making a precautionary landing after encountering fog enroute. Two approaches to rwy 24 were aborted due to gusting winds. A downwind approach was then made to rwy 06. When the acft descended below the height of surrounding trees the prevailing tailwind was blanked out & the acft landed short in a full stall.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6936P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 242070
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- William G. Brown
- Registered owner
- William G. Brown
- Departed
- PSC · Pasco, WA
- Destination
- HBO · Hillsboro, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CZK · Stevenson State, runway 6, 1,800 × 30 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 44 total · 41 in this make and model · 16 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 127 °F
- Observed at
- CZK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.