Piper PA-28-140 N5581F

Summary

On 22 April 1994 at about 10:30 local time, a Piper PA-28-140 registered N5581F was involved in an accident near Marshfield, Missouri, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

22 April 1994 at 10:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Marshfield, Missouri, United States

Coordinates

37.3290, -92.9104

Aircraft

Piper PA-28-140

Registration

N5581F

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Unknown → Cape Girardeau

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

CHI94FA137

2 people died.

FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE DURING A VFR FLIGHT INTO IMC CONDITIONS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

Two private pilots, neither of whom had an instrument rating, departed on a cross country flight an hour before sunrise. The airplane crashed 12 miles south of the point of departure into a heavily wooded area. Witnesses preparing to go hunting near the crash site reported low ceilings and fog. The weather observation taken ten minutes after the crash 23 miles from the crash site was ceiling measured 300 overcast, visibility 3 miles in fog. There was no record of a preflight weather brief.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.