- Date
- March 4, 1990, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Brinkley, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90061Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900304003109A
- Case key
- 34937
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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Probable cause
Recovery from bounced landing not performed and porpoise encountered by the pilot in command.
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 said that while attempting to land his newly purchased tailwheel acft, he hit hard, bounced, then landed hard again. The left main gear was torn off and the acft spun around damaging the right wing. The plt had accumulated a total of 11.5 hours in this type of tail wheel acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90061
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9122
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eugenea Felker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OM4 · Camden, TN
- Destination
- M36
- Airport
- M36 · Federer, runway 20, 3,000 × 50 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 579 total · 12 in this make and model · 524 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- LIT, 50 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.