Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a fence at the end of the runway.
NTSB analysis
The pilot said that he was practicing touch-and-go landings. After one of the takeoffs, he pulled the throttle back to practice an aborted takeoff from an altitude of 50 feet above ground level (agl). He lowered the flaps and performed a three-point landing. He added power for takeoff again, but had only climbed 3 feet agl before impacting a 4-foot fence at the end of the 3,675-foot-long gravel runway. The airplane came to rest upright with its left main landing gear bent back under the fuselage. The left wing sustained structural damage.
Text from the NTSB. Open the NTSB docket for WPR10CA167 for the full record.
Event
- Date
- Mar 17, 2010
- Type
- Accident
- Place
- Okanogan, Washington
- Nearest airport
- Private (None)
- Highest injury
- None
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Light
- Day
Piper PA-18-150
- N-number
- N4425Z
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial
- Operating rule
- Part 91 (general aviation)
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
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