- Date
- April 12, 1986, 16:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- St. Louis, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2578HErcoupe 415-C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860412011739A
- Case key
- 34159
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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.
Analysis
The plt reports that a wind squall passed over the arpt as he was landing. He said the acft encountered windshear at about 100 ft AGL on final apch and began to sink. The plt added pwr but could not stop the sink and the acft landed in a plowed field about 20 ft short of the rwy. The nose gear hit a lip at the end of the rwy and collapsed aft damaging the firewall and fuselage. Nearby St. Louis-lambert fld reported a cb in the vic and a windshift with wind gusts to 30 KTS at the time of the acdt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2578H
- Reported as
- Ercoupe 415-C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3203
- Airframe hours
- 1,747
- Engine
- Continental 85, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wallis F. Altom
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 1985 · 60 hours before
- Airport
- 1HO · Creve Coeur, runway 25, 3,020 × 175 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 469 total · 75 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 22 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STL, 7 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.