- Date
- May 7, 1990, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Rogerson, ID
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1011APiper PA-18-125
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900507014849A
- Case key
- 41192
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Probable cause
The pilot's intentional flight below safe altitudes while engaged in low-altitude 'buzzing' activities.
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 acft crashed in a reservoir after striking a tent & a vehicle during the 2nd of 2 low passes over the campsite of the passenger's parents. The passenger drowned as the acft sank wnen his coveralls could not be cut free.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1011A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-125
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-582
- Airframe hours
- 4,881
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Michael A. Bruentto
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 25, 1989 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- NVO4 · Deeth, NV
- Destination
- SUN · Ketchum, ID
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 942 total · 799 in this make and model · 852 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TWF, 29 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.
Other investigations on N1011A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.