- Date
- August 7, 1982, 15:09 local (19:09 UTC)
- Place
- Wiscasset, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8476BGrumman AA-5A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820807035139A
- Case key
- 73080
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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 student pilot was making an approach and was low and slow. By the time the instructor took over the aircraft the recovery was slow and the aircraft touched down in rough terrain 500 feet short of the runway. The nose gear snapped offduring landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8476B
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-5A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0859
- Airframe hours
- 227
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2G, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles D. Stanton
- Registered owner
- Charles D. Stanton
- Departed
- 9B9 · Wiscasset, ME
- Destination
- 9B9 · Wiscasset, ME
- Airport
- 9B9 · Wiscasset, runway 25, 3,400 × 75 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
- 33
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,400 total · 272 in this make and model · 3,149 as pilot in command · 86 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 158 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8476B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.