- Date
- June 4, 1989, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N373TCOlson BD-4
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890604014339A
- Case key
- 34803
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Probable cause
Premature lift-off and inadvertent stall by the pilot. A loss of directional control and an inadvertent ground swerve by the pilot were contributing factors.
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
After making two practice VFR approaches without touchdown, the pilot requested a full stop landing. He said the aircraft bounced and he lost runway alignment, so he elected to go-around. Also, he said that at about 20 ft AGL, he lost control of the acft, it stalled, then it rolled inverted and collided with the terrain. The pilot suffered a broken arm. He had accumulated a total flight time of 86 hrs, of which, two hrs were in this tailwheel configured, home-built aircraft. This was a flight to establish the flight characteristics of the aircraft. The pilot had two hrs flight time in this make and model of aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N373TC
- Reported as
- Olson BD-4
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 373
- Airframe hours
- 2
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-B1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Olson, Thomas C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 21, 1989 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- CID · Cedar Rapids, IA
- Airport
- CID · Cedar Rapids, runway 27, 7,000 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 86 total · 2 in this make and model · 52 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID, 1 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.