- Date
- October 6, 1985, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Sawyer, ND
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N26207Grumman AA-5A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851006056219A
- Case key
- 16868
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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 plt allowed the airspeed to decrease to the extent of activating the acft stall warning system on final apch at 100 ft above the ground and 200 ft from the end of the rwy. He corrected the low airspeed condition by lowering the nose, resulting in a high rate of descent. He initiated an excessive nose high landing flare to compensate for the high rate of decent, causing the acft to stall 10-15 ft above the rwy. The plt continued the landing with no corrective action. The acft impacted the rwy in a nose low attitude, bounced 50-60 ft into the air, crossed a dirt road and landed in a fld where it collided with a large bale of hay.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26207
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-5A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0472
- Airframe hours
- 2,449
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2G, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pietsch Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 15, 1985 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- MOT · Minot, ND
- Airport
- Pietsch Airstrip, runway 29, 2,800 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 86 total · 32 in this make and model · 51 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOT, 12 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.