- Date
- May 17, 1988, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Horton, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3502LGreat Lakes 2T1A2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34568
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Undershoot
Airspeed - inadequateCause
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Stall/mush - inadvertentCause
Analysis
The PIC was executing touch and go lndgs when he reportedly experienced a shift in wind conditions. The acft impacted the ground short of the rwy. He said that the wings suddenly lost lift resulting in a high descent rate. The PIC reported no mechanical flt control or engine difficulties.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3502L
- Reported as
- Great Lakes 2T1A2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0792
- Airframe hours
- 680
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1G6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John E. Sutton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1987
- Departed
- K91 · Horton, KS
- Destination
- K91
- Airport
- K91 · Horton, runway 17, 2,215 × 260 ft, grass/turf
N3502LRegistered now · Great Lakes 2T-1A-2Airframe modelGreat Lakes 2T-1A-2Engine modelLycoming AEIO-360 series
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 970 total · 624 in this make and model · 737 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCI, 44 nm away