- Date
- April 9, 1990, 17:30 local (Apr 10, 1990, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N28277Gulfstream American AA-5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900409007939A
- Case key
- 26772
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Probable cause
Pilot failed to attain the proper touch down point and the remedial action was improper. Contributing to this accident was that the pilot allowed the aircraft to porpoise during the landing rollout.
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 aircraft touched down about midfield on the 3100-foot-long runway. The pilot lost control of the aircraft and it began to porpoise. The aircraft overran the departure end of the runway and collided with a berm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N28277
- Reported as
- Gulfstream American AA-5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B0992
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Arthelle S. Sorensen
- Departed
- HHR · Hawthorne, CA
- Destination
- AUN · Auburn Muni, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AUN · Auburn Muni, runway 25, 3,100 × 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 840 total · 532 in this make and model · 627 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
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.