- Date
- February 10, 1981
- Place
- Hammond, LA · HAMMOND, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9501QTed Smith 601
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19810210003479A
- Case key
- 126526
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1989 81/2/10 HAMMOND,LA TED SMITH 601 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1900 N9501Q PX- 0 0 0 CORP/EXEC AGE 24, 3251 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 240 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HAMMOND MUNI DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION BATON ROUGE,LA HAMMOND,LA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER - WIND SHEAR WEATHER - TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY WEATHER BUREAU PERSONNEL, IN PERSON WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 600 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND FOG LIGHT AND VARIABLE TEMPERATURE-F WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 62 15 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR IFR REMARKS- WHILE TRANSITIONING FM IFR TO VFR,ENCTRD WND SHEAR,ACFT BGN DRIFTING RGT,RATE OF DSCNT INCREASED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9501Q
- Reported as
- Ted Smith 601
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Hammond Muni
FAA reports on this event · 1
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