- Date
- June 22, 1990, 14:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, CT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N226HSClassic Waco
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900622021889A
- Case key
- 36667
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to correctly recover from a bounced landing. Factors related to the accident were: improper use of the brakes by the pilot.
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 came in for a landing and got into a series of bounces. On the final bounce the airplane touched down nose low, the propeller dug in and the airplane flipped over. After the accident, the pilot said he realized he had used improper bounced landing recovery technique.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N226HS
- Reported as
- Classic Waco
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- YMF-5(F5026)
- Airframe hours
- 136
- Engine
- Jacobs, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harold A. Sutphen
- Registered owner
- Harold A Sutphen, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 29, 1989 · 136 hours before
- Departed
- 7B6 · Warehouse Point, CT
- Airport
- N41 · Waterbury, runway 35, 2,000 × 150 ft, grass/turf
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,856 total · 126 in this make and model · 1,693 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 48 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 5 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15 ft unknown
- Temperature
- 81 °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.