- Date
- March 19, 1993, 06:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hailey, ID
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N24WWPiper PA-46-310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930319005749A
- Case key
- 43001
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control. A factor contributing to the accident was the snowbank.
Analysis
During the takeoff roll on rwy 13 the aircraft began to drift left. The pilot was unsuccessful in correcting for the drift and the aircraft impacted a snowbank along the east outboard edge of the runway before nosing over. Subsequent examination of the aircraft revealed no mechanical malfunction with either the brakes, rudder system or nosewheel steering and the passenger seated in the front right cockpit seat reported that he did not have his feet on the rudder pedals. Winds were northwesterly at 5 knots.
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
- N24WW
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46-8508071
- Airframe hours
- 720
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-BE, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wilson, David F. & Patricia W., doing business as David F. Wilson Construction
- Registered owner
- Wilson, David F. & Patricia W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 10, 1993 · 243 hours before
- Departed
- SUN
- Destination
- MXL · Mexicali
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SUN · Friedman Memorial, runway 13, 6,602 × 100 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,509 total · 21 in this make and model · 1,496 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N24WW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.