- Date
- February 3, 1991, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lake City, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4154KRyan Navion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910203003879A
- Case key
- 32818
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Probable cause
In-flight encounter with wind shear while on short final resulting in a hard landing.
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 on short final after descending below trees at the apch end of the rwy, the CFI stated that the flt encountered wind shear. The student applied power to go around but the acft descended & landed hard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4154K
- Reported as
- Ryan Navion
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1154
- Engine
- Continental E185-9, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Schretzmann, William F
- Registered owner
- Schretzmann, William F
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Airport
- FL27 · Lake City Airpark, runway 5, 2,800 × 100 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
- 64
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,135 total · 620 in this make and model · 4,007 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Observed at
- GNV, 34 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.
Other investigations on N4154K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.