- Date
- August 7, 2003, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Logan, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N74STR. I. Woods Bushby Mustang II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 5, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Salt Lake City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20030807018879A
- Case key
- 57729
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control, and his inadequate recovery from the bounced landing. A contributing factor was the wind gust.
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 pilot was landing on runway 17. Just after touchdown, a gust of wind lifted the aircraft off the runway. The aircraft came down and bounced three to four times. The left wheel, axle, and brake assembly separated, and the airplane slid on the left wing. Recorded winds were from 190 degrees at 14 knots, gusting to 19 knots.
Factual narrative
On August 7, 2003, approximately 1230 mountain daylight time, a Woods Bushby Mustang II, N74ST, was substantially damaged during a hard landing at Logan-Cache Airport (LGU), Logan Utah. The private pilot, the sole occupant on board, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. No flight plan had been filed for the cross-country flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight departed Casper, Wyoming, at approximately 0900.
According to the FAA Inspector who went to the scene, the pilot was landing on runway 17. Just after touchdown, a gust of wind lifted the aircraft off the runway. The aircraft came down and bounced three to four times. The left wheel, axle, and brake assembly separated, and the airplane slid on the left wing. The propeller was damaged and the left main wing spar was bent.
According to the Logan Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) at 1251, the wind was from 190 degrees at 14 knots, gusting to 19 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N74ST
- Reported as
- R. I. Woods Bushby Mustang II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1506
- Airframe hours
- 154
- Engine
- Lycoming O-332-O3G, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard I. Woods
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 6, 2002 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- CPR · Casper, WY
- Destination
- KLS · Kelso, WA
- Airport
- LGU · Logan-Cache, runway 17, 5,931 × 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
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Last flight review
- November 27, 2002
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 723 total · 723 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 14 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- LGU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.