- Date
- May 5, 1991, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fall River Mill, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N320MCLancair 320
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910505014139A
- Case key
- 27190
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot-in-command to compensate for wind conditions and to recover from a bounced landing which resulted in an on ground loss of control. Contributing to the accident was the wind conditions and turbulence at the airport at the time of the accident.
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
A lance air 320 lost control and collided with a t-hangar. The airplane landed hard and bounced three times before drifting off the left side of runway. The airplane then dragged a wing and cartwheeled into the doors of a t-hangar. The pilot reported that the winds were shifting from a crosswind to a quartering tailwind. The pilot also indicated that he noted turbulence on the downwind leg of the airport traffic pattern. The airport was equipped with a wind direction indicator and a segmented circle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N320MC
- Reported as
- Lancair 320
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 444-FB-24
- Engine
- Lycoming IO 360 B1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hardin, M.C.
- Registered owner
- Hardin, M.C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 043 · Yerington, NV
- Destination
- 289 · Fall River Mill, CA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 089 · Fall River Mill, runway 2, 3,600 × 80 ft
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 689 total · 17 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N320MC · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.