- Date
- July 3, 1983, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N96585Grumman AA-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 20960
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Remedial action - attemptedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Object - fenceFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The acft dragged both wings, first the left and then the right, before contacting a fence. The CFI took control the acft during the landing but the airspeed was too low to go-around and collision with the fence occurred. The aft was only 10 ft off the ground when the first wing dragged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96585
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1B-0185
- Airframe hours
- 2,713
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alan Sparks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Fort Worth, TX
- Airport
- 9F9 · Sycamore, runway 17, 3,450 × 25 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,597 total · 20 in this make and model · 1,547 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg