- Date
- December 19, 1992, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Guayama, PR
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4305CCuevas, Orlando S. Quicksilver MXL 2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921219056599A
- Case key
- 33210
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control while making a go around following a bounced landing resulting in a collision with trees.
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
Pilot stated aircraft dropped from about 3 feet while flaring to land. The aircraft then bounced up and turned sideways prior to touching down again. The aircraft was headed for trees and the pilot initiated a go around. As he turned to avoid coconut trees the right wing contacted a mangrove tree branch, the aircraft spun to the right and impacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4305C
- Reported as
- Cuevas, Orlando S. Quicksilver MXL 2 (QUICKSILVE)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 208
- Airframe hours
- 55
- Engine
- Rotax 503UL, 50 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cartagena, Venaro
- Registered owner
- Cartagena, Venaro
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- X64 · Patillas, PR
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5 total · 5 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJU, 50 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 N4305C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.