- Date
- April 22, 1990, 20:45 local (Apr 23, 1990, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Eden Prairie, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9309NLake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34967
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Probable cause
Collision with animal, factors in the accident were light condition, dusk, and remedial action was not possible.
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.
In flight collision with object
Object - animal(s)Cause
Light condition - duskFactor
Remedial action - not possibleFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The commercial pilot said that during the landing flare, at dusk, a deer ran across the path of the acft and was struck by the right landing gear. The right wing was sheared off, with the gear attached, and the acft cartwheeled to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9309N
- Reported as
- Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 471
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ardoyna, John W.
- Departed
- WS24 · Round Lake, WI
- Destination
- FCM
- Airport
- FCM · Flying Cloud, runway 9, 3,909 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 400 in this make and model · 4,900 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 130° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FCM, 1 nm away