- Date
- July 27, 1989, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Madison, IN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N39035Grumman AA-1C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890727025459A
- Case key
- 14390
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Probable cause
The student's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft and the cfi's delay in taking remedial action to regain control. Contributing to the accident was the students lack of total experience.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The CFI and student plt, who had not flown in the last 90 days, had completed the basic airwork portion of the instructional flt and returned to the arpt to practice pattern work. On first touch and go landing, the student had a five knot crosswind sixty degrees to the left. On touchdown the acft drifted to the left. The student added full power aggrevating the drift. The CFI took control and tried to get the acft airborne, but landed in uneven terrain to the left of the rwy collapsing the nose gear. The acft slid into a ditch collpasing the right main gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39035
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-1C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1C0195
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hfg, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hfg, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- IMS · Madison In, runway 3, 3,200 × 60 ft, concrete
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
- 52
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 735 total · 26 in this make and model · 708 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SDF, 42 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.