- Date
- January 26, 2000, 15:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Oakland, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N228ERGrumman American AG5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000126006229A
- Case key
- 51203
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Probable cause
The inadvertent porpoise and improper remedial action of the pilot during the landing attempt.
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 attempting to practice touch-and-go landings. During the landing attempt, the airplane began to bounce. The pilot said he thought the bouncing would settle down, and instead, it got worse to the point that it broke off the nose gear strut.
Factual narrative
On January 26, 2000, at 1535 hours Pacific standard time, a Grumman American AG5B, N228ER, porpoised on landing and subsequently broke off the nose wheel at the Oakland, California, airport. The private pilot, the owner and operator of the aircraft, was not injured. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The purpose of the local area personal flight was to practice touch-and-go landings. The airplane departed from Hayward, California, approximately 1500, and was destined for Oakland when the accident occurred. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
The Federal Aviation Administration notified the Safety Board of the accident on March 27, 2000.
The pilot stated that once he touched down on runway 27L, the airplane began bouncing. He said the bouncing got worse, and finally the nose pitched down and the nose wheel hit the runway, which broke off the nose gear strut.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N228ER
- Reported as
- Grumman American AG5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10119
- Airframe hours
- 1,750
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Oilver A. Baer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1999 · 103 hours before
- Departed
- HWD · Hayward, CA
- Destination
- OAK · CA
- Airport
- OAK · Metropolitan Oakland Intl, runway 27L, 6,212 × 150 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
- 80
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,090 total · 415 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 16,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OAK, 1 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.