- Date
- February 5, 1992, 21:04 local (Feb 6, 1992, 04:04 UTC)
- Place
- Ogden, UT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4370BPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920205001989A
- Case key
- 41568
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Probable cause
The improper decision by the instructor pilot to perform maintenance in flight and his failure to maintain terrain clearance. Factors relating to the accident were the dark night light conditions, mountainous terrain in the area, and the instructor diverting his attention from flight duties.
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
During a night instrument training flight in mountainous terrain, the CFI instructed the hooded student to fly an altitude and heading directly toward a ridgeline while he changed a battery in a portable intercom system being used on the flt. The acft impacted rising mount terrain on the heading and altitude assigned by the CFI.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4370B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8416114
- Airframe hours
- 3,389
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hill Afb Aero Club
- Registered owner
- United States Air Force
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 27, 1992 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- HIF · Hill Afb, UT
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 51
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 5,103 total · 4,927 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGD, 21 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.