- Date
- June 27, 1982, 16:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Friendswood, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N53999Ryan Aeronautics ST3KR (PT 21)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 27, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820627027219A
- Case key
- 70764
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Undershoot
Distance - misjudgedCause
Altitude - not followedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Nose over
Analysis
The student pilot took off with a passenger to practice landings. On the second landing, the aircraft collided with a ditch short of the runway and flipped inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53999
- Reported as
- Ryan Aeronautics ST3KR (PT 21) (ST3KR (PT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1162
- Airframe hours
- 3,407
- Engine
- Kinner R-55, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond F. Griffin
- Registered owner
- Raymond F. Griffin
- Departed
- TO2 · Friendswood, TX
- Destination
- TO2 · Friendswood, TX
- Airport
- TO2, runway 14, 2,500 × 0 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 36 in this make and model · 45 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.