Piper PA 28 N5948W
15 September 2014 · Lone Pine, California, United States · Serious injuries
Summary
On 15 September 2014 at about 19:30 local time, a Piper PA 28 registered N5948W was involved in an accident near Lone Pine, California, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 19:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Lone Pine, California, United States
- Coordinates
- 36.4522, -118.3397
- Aircraft
- Piper PA 28
- Registration
- N5948W
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1966
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- San Jose → Darwin
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- WPR14LA377
People
1 person was seriously injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Probable cause
The fatigue failure of a propeller blade due to a propeller strike by/of an unidentified object at an unknown time.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The private pilot reported that, 2 hours into the personal cross-country flight, he observed a "flash of something" depart the front of the airplane and that the airplane instantly began violently shuddering and vibrating. The pilot immediately landed the airplane in a clearing, and he observed that almost half of one of the propeller blades was missing. A postaccident examination of the propeller assembly revealed that the propeller blade was fractured about 24 inches from the blade butt. Examination of the fracture surface revealed characteristics of fatigue failure that originated in a stress raiser located about 1.25 inches from the leading edge on the lower blade surface. A witness mark, in the form of a distinct score line, was present, indicating that the blade experienced a strike, which created a flaw of critical size at the fatigue origin site that ultimately propagated to failure. The investigation could not determine whether an object struck the blade or the blade struck an object or when the strike occurred.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Piper PA-28 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2014 | Piper PA 28-140 | Belen, New Mexico, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 21 Apr 2014 | Piper PA 28-181 | Put in Bay, Ohio, United States | Griffing Flying Service | No injuries | - |
| 4 Feb 2014 | Piper PA 28-181 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States | TransPac Aviation Academy | Serious injuries | - |
| 8 Feb 2014 | Piper PA-28-161 | Stuart, Florida, United States | Fishe Flying Corp | Fatal | 1 |
| 15 Jun 2014 | Piper PA 28-180 | Quincy, California, United States | Parker Larry | No injuries | - |
| 10 Aug 2014 | Piper PA 28-161 | Block Island, Rhode Island, United States | Danic Electric Corp | No injuries | - |
All 9,402 records for this type
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