- Date
- August 26, 1989, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4152NPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890826032169A
- Case key
- 26487
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing and loss of directional control.
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
While landing the Piper PA-18, the pilot experienced a hard landing and lost directional control of the aircraft. He attempted to regain control by applying power and increasing left rudder. Seeing that the situation was not being corrected, he increased power and attempted to perform a go-around. Directional control was not regained and the aircraft veered off the runway to the right. The aircraft struck a boulder, damaging a landing gear strut, the propeller, and the wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4152N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1809028
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Francis M. Reps
- Departed
- TLR · Tulare, CA
- Destination
- 022
- Airport
- O22 · Columbia, runway 17, 4,677 × 75 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 40 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MOD, 35 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.