- Date
- December 28, 1989, 13:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Hammond, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N77NWLong E-Z-E Long E-Z-E-
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891228053729A
- Case key
- 22978
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Probable cause
Inadequate aircraft handling and recovery from a bounced landing. Factors were gusty wind conditions, the pilot's failure to maintain directional control, and the pilot's lack of familiarity with the airplane.
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 pilot was making a landing from the first flight of the homebuilt airplane. He said he made a hard to severe contact with the runway, bounced to the left and departed the runway. The airplane went off into soft soil, the nose gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over to the inverted position. Wind was from 220 degrees at 12 knots gusting to 18. The airplane was equipped with fixed main landing gear and a retractable nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N77NW
- Reported as
- Long E-Z-E Long E-Z-E- (LONG E-Z-E)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 931
- Airframe hours
- 5
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard A. Dean
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 28, 1990 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- 0R9
- Destination
- OR9
- Airport
- OR9 · Hammond, runway 18, 4,600 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 185 total · 150 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- 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.