Piper PA-32R-301 accident near Spearville, KS
On November 17, 2001, a Piper PA-32R-301 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Spearville, KS. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- November 17, 2001
- Place
- Spearville, KS
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-32R-301 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 37.841°N, 99.751°W
- NTSB ID
- 20011123X02290
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On November 16, 2001, at 1839 central standard time, a Piper PA-32R-301, N9224X, piloted by a private pilot, departed controlled flight and impacted terrain 3 miles north-northwest of Spearville, Kansas. An explosion and post-crash fire ensued. Night instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The personal flight was being conducted under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 without a flight plan. The pilot was fatally injured. The cross-country flight originated at LaCrosse, Kansas, approximately 1820, and was en route to Dodge City, Kansas (DDC). At 1806, the pilot contacted the Wichita Flight Service Station (AFSS), Wichita, Kansas, by telephone and requested the weather from LaCrosse to Dodge City. The AFSS controller told the pilot, "(you're) gonna have conditions lowering in the dodge city area out there you have quite a bit of cloud cover and moisture moving in from the uh south moving northwest --- (unintelligible)." The controller went on to tell the pilot that "dodge city radar shows ... some scattered light showers and that's about all you're gonna see out there ... as far as precautions they have issued one for i f r over the southwestern quarter of kansas now and let's see what that says o k calling for occasional ceilings below a thousand and three and strata and fog uh through zero three hundred zulu to be developing over remainder of western kansas and western oklahoma through texas through zero nine hundred zulu so actually it looks like it's likely to spread and right now uh dodge is showing southeast winds at
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control and his inadvertent flight into known adverse weather conditions. Factors relating to this accident were the pilot's limited ability to see at night, spatial disorientation, the dark night, and the fog.
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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.
