- Date
- April 30, 1988, 15:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Morristown, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4557QGrumman AA5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880430031669I
- Case key
- 36143
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Probable cause
A loss of control due to improper technique after a bounced landing. Contributing was the second pilot also attempting to correct the situation.
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 made a bounced landing on runway 5 with winds from 300 at 15 - 20 knots. There were two private pilots on board and both attempted to correct the situation with one working the power and the other attempting to correct the bounce. The aircraft fell off on a wing and crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4557Q
- Reported as
- Grumman AA5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B-123A
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David R. Smith
- Registered owner
- Century Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- MMU · Morristown, NJ
- Airport
- MMU · Morristown, runway 5, 6,000 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 70 total · 35 in this make and model · 34 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.