- Date
- September 22, 1989, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Medina, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9332LAmerican AA-1A
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890922035879A
- Case key
- 14423
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing and his improper planning/decision which resulted in a situation from which an overrun occurred. Contributing factors were: the weather conditions, failure of the pilot to obtain a weather briefing, his continued flight into adverse weather (IMC), and his inadvertent entry into a porpoise during the 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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9332L
- Reported as
- American AA-1A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1-A-0032
- Airframe hours
- 1,275
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James B. Hosta
- Registered owner
- Hosta, James B
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 6, 1989 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- OH21 · Norwalk, OH
- Destination
- 1G5
- Airport
- 1G5 · Medina Freedom Field, runway 9, 3,556 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 321 total · 281 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 18 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.