- Date
- October 29, 1984, 17:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Island, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N39202Aspen Quickie 2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841029060829A
- Case key
- 33880
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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.
Hard landing
Touch-and-go - improperCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Flare - improperCause
Analysis
The plt stated that he was practicing landings & had less than three hours total time in the Q2. He said he flared high & bounced three times. During the third bounce the front wing, to which the main landing gear is attached, broke & the acft ran off the left side of the rwy. The landing was being made into the wind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39202
- Reported as
- Aspen Quickie 2
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2259
- Airframe hours
- 3
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100D, 64 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John A. Aspen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- Grand Island, NE
- Airport
- GRI · Hall Co Regional, runway 17, 7,001 × 150 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 337 total · 3 in this make and model · 254 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.