CEN17WA243 · Piper L4
Piper L4 · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From Hodkovice nad Mohelkou Airfield (LKHD) to Plasy Rybnice Airfield (LKPS)
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Event
- NTSB case
- CEN17WA243
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground Possible conflict
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Piper L4
- Aircraft type
- Piper L4
- 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
- OM-M038
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Hodkovice nad Mohelkou Airfield (LKHD), LibereckýTo Plasy Rybnice Airfield (LKPS), Rybnice
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Initial climb
- Defining eventThe 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
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On June 25, 2017, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time, a Piper L4, OM-M038, impacted terrain after takeoff from Hodkovice Airport (LKHD), Liberecký, Czech Republic. The airplane was destroyed. The pilot sustained serious injuries, and the passenger sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. The flight was originating at the time of the accident and was destined to Plasy Airport, Plzenský, Czech Republic.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Czech Republic government. Further information may be obtained from:
Air Accidents Investigation Institute (AAII) Beranových 130 Prague, Czech Republic 19900
Phone: +420 266199231 Fax: +420 266199234 E-mail: info@uzpln.cz Webpage: http://www.uzpln.cz/en/
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Air Accidents Investigation Institute (AAII) of the Czech Republic.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN17WA243
- Event ID
- 20170628X01138
- Case number
- CEN17WA243
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 6e894f11030dfe5f9c33099d39b000e1dcdf5fba44d40364f1e96d1ecafa05ed; retrieved 2026-09-15T06:04:52.188Z.