- Date
- May 21, 1999, 13:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Hartsell, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9082AAircraft Parts & Dev. A-9B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990521026259A
- Case key
- 46365
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain flying speed that resulted in the inflight collision with the ground. A factor was the pilot's lack of total experience in the aircraft.
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
During a high speed taxi familiarization, the plane became airborne and the pilot decided to go around the pattern and make a landing. While on final approach to land, the pilot stalled the airplane short of the runway, collided with the ground, and nosed over. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot. A review of the pilot's flight experience disclosed that he had not logged any flight time in the A-9B airplane as pilot-in-command.
Factual narrative
On May 21, 1999, at 1350 central daylight time, an Aircraft Parts & Development Corp. A-9B, N9082A, collided with the ground, and nosed over during landing at the Roundtree Field Airport, in Hartsell, Alabama. The airplane was operated by the private pilot under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and visual flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed for the local flight. The pilot was not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The flight departed Hartsell, Alabama, at approximately 1345.
According to the pilot, during a high speed taxi familiarization, the airplane became airborne. At that point, the pilot elected to go around the pattern and land. The pilot reported that while on final approach to land, he stalled the airplane short of the runway; the airplane collided with the ground, and nosed over. According to the FAA, damage to the airplane consisted of the nose gear, propeller, and vertical stabilizer.
No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilot. A review of the pilot's flight experience disclosed that he had not logged any flight time in the A-9B airplane as pilot-in-command.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9082A
- Reported as
- Aircraft Parts & Dev. A-9B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5001
- Airframe hours
- 1,800
- Engine
- Lycoming I0-540 KIA5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles A. Hill
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 1999 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- 5M0
- Airport
- 5M0 · Hartselle Roundtree, runway 18, 3,600 × 75 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
- 31
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 349 total · 300 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB, 73 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.