- Date
- April 11, 2000, 10:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90TSTaylor Smith Witman W-10
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000411005979A
- Case key
- 48931
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Probable cause
failure of the pilot to recover from a bounced landing resulting in a loss of directional control and collision with a fence.
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 made a 3-point landing, then bounced back into the air. He added power and the airplane veered to the left. The airplane departed the runway and collided with a fence running parallel to the runway.
Factual narrative
On April 11, 2000, about 1030 hours Pacific daylight time, an experimental Taylor Smith Witman W-10, N90TS, sustained substantial damage when it veered off the runway and collided with a fence while landing at Flabob Airport, Riverside, California. The private pilot/owner operated the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 and suffered minor injuries. The local personal flight departed about 1015 and stayed in the landing pattern. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed.
The pilot informed the Federal Aviation Administration accident coordinator that he made a 3-point landing, then bounced back into the air. He added power and the airplane veered to the left. The airplane departed the runway and collided with a fence running parallel to the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90TS
- Reported as
- Taylor Smith Witman W-10 (WITMAN W-1)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 587
- Airframe hours
- 52
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-G, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Taylor Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 10, 1999 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- RIR
- Airport
- RIR · Flabob, runway 24, 3,200 × 50 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
- 78
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 378 total · 42 in this make and model · 280 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAL, 4 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.