- Date
- February 26, 1989, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- El Paso, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N224BGBurkhart Grob G109B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890226002729A
- Case key
- 22705
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Probable cause
Pilot in command's loss of control due to overcontrolling the aircraft. The situation was proceeded by a high sink rate that resulted in a hard landing with an inadequate recovery from a bounced landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inexperience at flying the airplane from the right seat.
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.
Analysis
The acft veered off the runway and struck two parked acft following a loss of control while landing. The plt stated that she overcontrolled with spoilers after having bounced on landing due to a high sink rate. Winds were gusting at the time and the plt was flying from the right seat, a position from which she had limited experience.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N224BG
- Reported as
- Burkhart Grob G109B
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 6365
- Airframe hours
- 275
- Engine
- Limbach L2000, 80 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Suzanne S. Azar
- Registered owner
- G109 B Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 3, 1989 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- ELP · El Paso, TX
- Airport
- TX04 · West Texas, runway 8, 4,100 × 50 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,330 total · 15 in this make and model · 1,255 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ELP, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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