- Date
- October 9, 2005, 14:04 local (18:04 UTC)
- Place
- Jackson, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5083TBeech 19A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 25, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Detroit, Michigan
- FAA report
- 20051009027079A
- Case key
- 62862
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadvertent porpoise during landing, which resulted in a loss of control and a collision with a sign.
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 was attempting to land when the airplane porpoised and went off the side of the runway, striking a sign and sustaining substantial damage. The student pilot did not report any preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On October 9, 2005, at 1404 eastern daylight time, a Beech model 19A, N5083T, piloted by a student pilot, sustained substantial damage during landing on runway 32 (3,501 feet by 100 feet, asphalt), at the Jackson County Airport-Reynolds Field, Jackson, Michigan. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The pilot was not injured. The flight originated from the Owosso Community Airport, Owosso, Michigan, at an unconfirmed time.
According to statements from two air traffic controllers, the airplane porpoised on runway 32 during landing. The controllers reported that the airplane then went off of the runway, striking a runway sign, and came to rest in the grass between runway 32 and taxiway D.
The student pilot reported having a total of 39 hours of flight experience.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5083T
- Reported as
- Beech 19A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-312
- Airframe hours
- 3,029
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Almost New Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 2005 · 66 hours before
- Departed
- RNP · Owosso, MI
- Destination
- Jackson, MI
- Airport
- JXN · Jackson County-Reynolds Field, runway 32, 3,501 × 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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 39 total · 31 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- JXN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.