Piper PA-18-150 accident near Frenchglen, OR
On March 2, 1994, a Piper PA-18-150 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Frenchglen, OR. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 2, 1994
- Place
- Frenchglen, OR
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-18-150 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 42.720°N, 119.120°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001206X00993
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On March 2, 1994, at 1316 Pacific standard time (PST), a Piper PA-18-150, N82951, impacted the terrain about three miles east of Frenchglen, Oregon. The commercial pilot, who was the sole occupant of the aircraft, received fatal injuries, and the aircraft was destroyed. The personal pleasure flight, which departed Burns, Oregon, about 25 minutes earlier, was in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation. According to a witness, the pilot had flown from Lewiston, Idaho, to Burns, Oregon, earlier in the day, arriving at the Burns Airport around 1230. While there, she had the aircraft refueled with 21.4 gallons of aviation fuel, and called a friend at a ranch near Frenchglen in order to make plans for landing on a dirt/gravel road near the ranch. During that telephone conversation, she asked the friend to make a "wind sock" and go to a portion of Steens Mountain Loop Road about one mile northeast of Page Dam. The friend said that the pilot had not landed on this road before, but had looked at it from the ground at an earlier date. The pilot said that she planned to land on the road, but if she was not able to land there, she would then proceed to an airstrip north of Frenchglen, and be picked up by car. Upon arrival at the proposed landing site, the pilot descended to what the witness said was about 200 feet above the ground (AGL), and flew along the road from west to east. After passing by the friend and his makeshift wind sock at a "...fairly low speed...", the pi
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM AIRSPEED (VS). THE TAILWIND WAS A FACTOR.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
