- Date
- July 26, 1985, 23:00 local (Jul 27, 1985, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fond Du Lac, WI
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5604VHoward DGA-15P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850726034359A
- Case key
- 13174
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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 had accurued aprx 12 hrs of flying time on the day of the accident. During the final landing the acft touched down at the rwy mid-point and bounced. The acft then struck a rwy light and veered off the rwy paved surface into soft sod. The plt attempted to go around but the soft surface caused slow acceleration. Shortly after breaking ground the acft atruck localizer antenna poles off the end of the rwy and fell to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5604V
- Reported as
- Howard DGA-15P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 859
- Airframe hours
- 2,492
- Engine
- P&W R-985 SERIES, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bryce B. Hunt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 1, 1984 · 89 hours before
- Departed
- SUX · Sioux City, IA
- Airport
- FLD · Fon Du Lac County, runway 36, 5,000 × 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23,000 total · 570 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 270° at 7 knots, gusting 3
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Observed at
- OSH
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.