- Date
- July 26, 1990, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Oshkosh, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3738UBeech A36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900726028989A
- Case key
- 14724
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to recognize the deteriorating airspeed and imminent stall during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard 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.
Hard landing
Diverted attention
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - encountered
Analysis
The pilot stated that he was following traffic for the lending runway when he was advised of a displaced threshold. He reported that 'while extending the landing, I stalled just above the runway resulting in a hard landing.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3738U
- Reported as
- Beech A36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA161
- Airframe hours
- 1,340
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mumford, Philip D.
- Registered owner
- Mumford, Phillip J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 30, 1990 · 76 hours before
- Departed
- MDW · Chicago, IL
- Airport
- OSH · Oshkosh Wittman Field, runway 18R, 8,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,807 total · 375 in this make and model · 1,807 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- 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.