- Date
- October 2, 1989, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Albemarle, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N350HTNorth American AT-6D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891002038749A
- Case key
- 8164
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
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 pilot reported that during a practice landing the airplane began to drift to the left. A correction was applied but he over corrected and the airplane swerved to the right. When he became aware that the airplane would leave the right side of the hard surface runway, the pilot attempted to take off again. The airplane became airborne heading at a 45 degree angle away from the right side of the runway. A pine tree was hit with the left wing tip, the airplane stalled, and hit the ground. The wing center section broke away from the airplane at impact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N350HT
- Reported as
- North American AT-6D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 43756
- Airframe hours
- 7,886
- Engine
- P&W R-1340, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas H. North, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Thomas, Herbert N Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 7, 1988
- Airport
- 6A6 · Stanly Co., runway 4, 4,700 × 100 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 10,150 total · 300 in this make and model · 7,107 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HKY, 50 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.