- Date
- June 7, 1989, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Spencerville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N79SGGood Varieze
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890607014689A
- Case key
- 14221
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper runway alignment during the soft field landing.
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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - high vegetation
Proper alignment - not maintainedCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79SG
- Reported as
- Good Varieze
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 074
- Airframe hours
- 475
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stephen L. Good
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 16, 1989 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- SMD · Fort Wayne, IN
- Airport
- 58IN · Hilltop, runway 27, 3,300 × 100 ft, grass/turf
N79SGRegistration cancelled Nov 21, 1989 · Good Stephen L VARIEZEAirframe modelGood Stephen L VARIEZE
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 641 total · 475 in this make and model · 582 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FWA, 25 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.