ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 39867
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| Date: | Sunday 14 November 1993 |
| Time: | 14:20 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-180 |
| Owner/operator: | Wade Palmer Enterprises |
| Registration: | N32303 |
| MSN: | 28-7505047 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2631 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360-A4A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cedar Lake, IN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Lansing, IL (3HA) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The private, instrument rated, pilot had waited at the fixed base operator's facility for several hours to go flying. When he signed out the airplane, an employee stated the pilot said: 'I'm going up to do a cloud check.' There was no record of a weather brief being given to the pilot by the Kankakee Automated Flight Service Station. A flight instructor who had been practicing for a Part 135 flight check and landed five minutes before the pilot took off, reported the ceiling was 700 feet overcast. There was also light rain and fog in the vicinity. The airplane crashed in an open field. The property owner where the airplane crashed reported: 'The motor was really buzzing, and it sounded like an explosion when it hit.' The attitude was wings level. The wreckage came to rest 210 feet from the point of initial impact facing opposite the direction of travel. The examination of the wreckage did not reveal any malfunction of the engine or airframe.
Probable Cause: the failure of the pilot to maintain proper altitude. A factor related to the accident was flight into known adverse weather by the pilot.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI94FA036
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Oct-2008 10:30 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:23 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 10-Apr-2024 10:06 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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