- Date
- April 3, 1987, 11:47 local (18:47 UTC)
- Place
- Los Alamos, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91735North American Navion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870403008519A
- Case key
- 17186
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The instructor plt was giving cross wind instruction to a pre-solo student plt. During a cross wind landing attempt, the acft touched down hard, breaking off the right main landing gear. The winds were observed at the time of touchdown to be 150 degrees at 12 knots, a quartering tail wind for rwy 27. After landing, the acft skidded to the right side of the landing area until coming to rest in the arpt boundary fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91735
- Reported as
- North American Navion
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- NAV 4 491
- Airframe hours
- 3,173
- Engine
- Continental E 225 4, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard B. Olwin
- Registered owner
- Richard B Olwin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 23, 1986
- Departed
- SAF · Santa Fe, NM
- Airport
- LAM · Los Alamos, runway 27, 5,543 × 130 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
- 72
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,370 total · 9 in this make and model · 4,370 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.