- Date
- May 4, 1986, 18:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, AL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N55VHAero Commander 112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860504041019A
- Case key
- 7097
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The plt lost control of the acft during an attempted go-around. While on final apch, full flaps were lowered and power was added to maintain 80 KTS. The acft continued descending, the airspeed decreased to 65-70 KTS and the stall warning activated. The plt then applied pwr to go-around, however, he applied too much back pressure on the yoke and the acft continued to mush. The acft traveled off the left side of the rwy, down an embankment and into a wooded area. The plt later reflected he had not recently practiced go-arounds and believes the flaps were inadvertently raised when pwr was added.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55VH
- Reported as
- Aero Commander 112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 246
- Airframe hours
- 634
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1D6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Winston Taylor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 28, 1985
- Airport
- 7A5 · Roanake, runway 11, 3,700 × 80 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 235 total · 38 in this make and model · 158 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.