- Date
- September 24, 1989, 13:04 local (17:04 UTC)
- Place
- Green Cove Spgs, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N711KDCooley LONG-EZ
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890924035839A
- Case key
- 32507
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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the pilot, which resulted in his failure (or inability) to align the acft with the runway during the landing. The low ceiling, tailwind, and ditch were related factors.
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 plt flew to another arpt & made touch & go lndgs. He rprtd that when he returned, there was a low ceiling, but he could see the arpt from svrl miles away. During an attempt to land on rwy 17, the acft touched down in a grass covered drainage ditch to the right of the rwy. The plt was unable to steer the acft out of the ditch. Subsequently, it hit a culvert & was extensively dmgd. A witness estimated the ceiling was 300' & the wind was from 360 deg at 8 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711KD
- Reported as
- Cooley LONG-EZ
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1147
- Airframe hours
- 150
- Engine
- Continental O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth J. Cooley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 21, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Airport
- 7FL1 · Haller Airpark, runway 17, 2,600 × 200 ft, grass/turf
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 150 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.