Piper PA 24-250 N7892P
5 October 2017 · Hillsboro, Oregon, United States · Serious injuries
Summary
On 5 October 2017 at about 21:20 local time, a Piper PA 24-250 registered N7892P was involved in an accident near Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 were 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 21:20
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
- Nearest airport
- Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark (7S3)
- Coordinates
- 45.4283, -122.9422
- Aircraft
- Piper PA 24-250
- Registration
- N7892P
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1962
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Hillsboro → Hillsboro
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- WPR18LA005
People
2 people were seriously injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Probable cause
The student's pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed during approach and subsequent exceedance of the critical angle of attack during a go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a subsequent hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's delayed remedial action during the attempted go-around.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
As the student pilot was approaching the runway for a practice soft-field, full-stop landing, the airplane descended faster than expected and the nose pitched up. The airplane's airspeed was slow, and the flight instructor called for a go-around. During the go-around, the flight instructor told the student pilot to apply power faster. Subsequently, the airplane exceeded its critical angle of attack and aerodynamically stalled, settled toward the ground, struck the ground hard short of the runway, and then bounced onto the runway, sustaining substantial damage to the fuselage and wings. The accident might have been avoided if the flight instructor had intervened or taken control of the airplane earlier in the sequence.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Piper PA-24 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Sep 2017 | Piper PA-24-260 | Los Angeles, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 12 Apr 2018 | Piper PA 24 | New Braunfels, Texas, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 17 Dec 2018 | Piper PA-24-250 | Aberdeen, Idaho, United States | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 4 Jun 2016 | Piper PA 24 | Loda, Illinois, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 29 Jan 2016 | Piper PA 24-260 | Santa Rosa, California, United States | - | Fatal | 2 |
| 8 Feb 2018 | Piper PA 24-260 | Fargo, North Dakota, United States | - | No injuries | - |
All 2,700 records for this type
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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