- Date
- April 28, 1987, 13:55 local (18:55 UTC)
- Place
- Minden, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N55889Law OSPREY-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870428011749A
- Case key
- 22358
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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.
Hard landing
Altitude - misjudgedFactor
Flare - prematureFactor
Main gear collapsed
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Landing gear,main gear - overloadFactor
Landing gear,main gear - failure,totalFactor
Analysis
Pilot stated that he flared about ten feet too high and landed hard collapsing the main gear followed by the aircraft sliding off the runway and colliding with a ditch where substantial damage occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55889
- Reported as
- Law OSPREY-2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 476
- Engine
- Unknown UNKNOWN, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Paul Hilburn
- Registered owner
- Paul Hilburn
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- HEZ · Natchez, MS
- Airport
- F24 · Minden-Webster
N55889Registration cancelled Mar 6, 1989 · Law Marc A. JR. OSPREY-2Airframe modelLaw Marc A. JR. OSPREY-2
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 350 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MZR, 70 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.