- Date
- March 28, 1987, 16:30 local (Mar 29, 1987, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Franklin, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9GDJones Pitts Special S1A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870328008749A
- Case key
- 25549
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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 the landing roll, the pilot was unable to maintain directional control when a gust of wind from the right pushed the aircraft off the left side of the runway. The aircraft collided with the terrain and nosed over. There was no mechanical failure or malfunction reported prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9GD
- Reported as
- Jones Pitts Special S1A (PITTS SPEC)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- GD-1
- Airframe hours
- 400
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Veal, Robert E.
- Registered owner
- Robinson Don M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- Q40 · Elk Grove, CA
- Destination
- Q53 · Franklin, CA
- Airport
- Q53 · Franklin, runway 36, 3,295 × 60 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 20 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 13 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAC, 15 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.