- Date
- July 29, 1990, 15:25 local (19:25 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N1429RGrumman AA-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900729028849A
- Case key
- 36543
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and the inadvertent stall of the airplane at an altitude from which recovery 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.
Analysis
During a daylight instructional flight the airplane was observed to do slow descending and climbing turns. During a turn the airplane was reported to have abruptly go into a nose down attitude and spin into trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1429R
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1B-0529
- Airframe hours
- 1,925
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hortmont Aviation Services,Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PNE · Philadelphia,, PA
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 300 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- WRI, 57 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.