- Date
- July 22, 1989, 14:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Athol, ID
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8061KStinson 108-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890722024579A
- Case key
- 40928
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain airspeed and inadvertently stalled.
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
Pilot was practicing landings with an instructor on board during a fly-in. It was established prior to flight that the owner/pilot was pilot-in-command. The surviving instructor stated that the pilot initiated a go-around and then suddenly rolled the aircraft to the left, entering into a stall at too low of an altitude to recover.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8061K
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-3061
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-165-B, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William E. Rooks
- Registered owner
- William E Rooks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 1989 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- COE · Coeur D'Alene, ID
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- S61 · Hackney, runway 21, 3,500 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 830 total · 800 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.