- Date
- September 2, 1989, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paradise Valley, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N83TLPiper PA-32R-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890902033589A
- Case key
- 41071
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning/preparation, and his failure to abort the takeoff. The high density altitude, soft runway, and fence were related factors.
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
The pilot attempted to take off from a 2000 ft, soft, dirt runwway. Density altitude at that time was about 5440 ft. the aircraft lifted off near the end of the runway, but it did not clear a fence & dirt berm at the departure end.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83TL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-768392
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ernest W. Myers
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Destination
- O37 · Orland, CA
- Airport
- Paradise Valley, runway 36, 2,000 × 40 ft, dirt
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 11,000 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 95 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- WMC, 37 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.