- Date
- August 26, 1990, 20:00 local (Aug 27, 1990, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6169LGrumman AA1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900826065519A
- Case key
- 8268
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to properly flare.
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 student pilot stated that the airplane bounced hard which resulted in the failure of the nose gear. The airplane veered off the runway into the grass. No mechanincal problems were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6169L
- Reported as
- Grumman AA1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1-10046-15
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gipson, Grady L.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- GVL
- Airport
- GVL · Lee Gilmer Memorial, runway 4, 4,999 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 106 total · 21 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- AHN, 30 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.