- Date
- June 8, 1991, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Alvin, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N773HDBronner Skybolt
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910608031829A
- Case key
- 23216
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain terrain clearance. A factor was the pilot's decision to perform a low pass.
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
During arrival at the site of an annual local fly in, the pilot made a low pass down the runway. As the airplane flew across a road at the end of the runway, the main landing gear struck the edge of the road. An uneventful precautionary landing was subsequently performed at a nearby private airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N773HD
- Reported as
- Bronner Skybolt
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 0708
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-G1A5, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph B. Ware
- Registered owner
- Joseph B. Ware
- Departed
- ICO · Brazoria, TX
- Airport
- 6R5 · Alvin Airpark, runway 21, 1,420 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 34
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 800 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N773HD · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.