- Date
- March 6, 1993, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sebastian, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N641ARRoot, Arthur T. Delta Dyke JD-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930306006119A
- Case key
- 33238
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing, resulting in a hard landing which caused landing gear failure. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of total flight time and flight time in the make and model.
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 pilot stated that while performing his landing flare the airspeed was excessive and the aircraft ballooned. The aircraft then touched down and bounced. The aircraft touched down again hard and the landing gear separated, at which time the aircraft slid off the left side of the runway and came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N641AR
- Reported as
- Root, Arthur T. Delta Dyke JD-2 (DELTA DYKE)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1086
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Root, Arthur T.
- Registered owner
- Root, Arthur T.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 27, 1993 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- X26
- Airport
- X26 · Sebastian Municipal, runway 4, 4,000 × 150 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 1 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB, 13 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.