LAX84LA124 · Piper PA-28-181
Laquinta Air Service Piper PA-28-181 · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Yucca Valley Airport (L22) to Shoshone, CA
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX84LA124
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA-28-181
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N2534U
- Operator
- Laquinta Air Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Yucca Valley Airport (L22), Yucca Valley, CATo Shoshone, CA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · VFR go-around
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aborted landing, attempted
- Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Go-around, delayed
- Pilot in command › Stall, uncontrolled
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT LANDED LONG AND IN ATTEMPTING A GO-AROUND CRASHED OFF THE RWY ON THE ARPT. THE PLT SAID SHE MADE HER APPROACH TO RWY 34 AT SHOSHONE CA AND TOUCHED DOWN SLIGHTLY BEYOND THE MIDDLE OF THE 2380 FT RWY IN NO WIND CONDITIONS. SHE THEN ATTEMPTED A GO-AROUND BY APPLYING FULL POWER. THE ENGINE HESITATED BUT SHE PULLED BACK ON THE STICK AND BECAME AIRBORNE.THE ACFT STALLED A FEW FT OFF THE GROUND. THE PLT THEN LOWERED THE NOSE BUT DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH ALTITUDE TO RECOVER. SHE THEN RETARDED THE POWER AND CONTACTED THE GROUND BEYOND AND TO THE LEFT OF THE RWY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX84LA124
- Event ID
- 20001214X45348
- Case number
- LAX84LA124
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e4c0257f69eaad6e58087ec65d3af4b1ecc03c197c5dbcbab58655ed06eecc1f; retrieved 2026-09-23T20:59:40.203Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: destination. The narrative states "SHE MADE HER APPROACH TO RWY 34 AT SHOSHONE CA AND TOUCHED DOWN", and the accident happened on that landing; the destination was not recorded.