- Date
- August 12, 1989, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chatham, MA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N209AAMBB ME 209
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890812028829A
- Case key
- 36461
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Probable cause
The pilot stalled the aircraft while landing. Contributing factors to the accident were haze and the pilot applied power too late to arrest the airplane's sink rate.
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
While conducting a bfr flight, the CFI called for a short field landing at Chatham, Massachusetts. At the time of the approach there was haze and poor visibility. The CFI stated, '...we were getting low but still ok. The aircraft got to a flat approach with nose high and getting behind the power curve ... Both the pilot and I reacted too late for this particular airplane to recover altitude.' The airplane mushed into tree tops. The nose wheel caught on a chain link fence and the airplane rolled over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N209AA
- Reported as
- MBB ME 209
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 121
- Airframe hours
- 1,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Walter W. Kenyon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1988 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- OB6 · Chatham, MA
- Airport
- OB6 · Chatham, runway 24, 3,000 × 100 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
- 45
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,789 total · 1 in this make and model · 1,597 as pilot in command · 257 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.