- Date
- February 16, 1988, 11:51 local (16:51 UTC)
- Place
- Bridgeport, CT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N26834Gulfstream AA-5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880216002589A
- Case key
- 36096
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.
Analysis
During a touch and go landing, the aircraft touched down on the main gear just past the numbers. Full right aileron and left rudder was used for directional control. During rollout, the right wing came up and the left wing made contact with the runway surface. The pilot added full power for go around. After liftoff and a left bank, the aircraft began descending and impacted the ground at a 45 degree angle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26834
- Reported as
- Gulfstream AA-5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5A0753
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carney Aviation
- Registered owner
- Carney Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 21, 1987
- Airport
- BDR · Sikorsky, runway 29, 4,761 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,271 total · 80 in this make and model · 1,239 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.