- Date
- July 15, 1990, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hyannis, MA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4855ACessna 310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900715025769A
- Case key
- 36688
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Probable cause
A hard landing due to the pilot stalling the airplane during the landing flare. Contributing to this accident was gusty wind conditions.
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 flight was on an IFR approach to runway 22, broke out of the clouds and leveled off at 300 feet. The pilot said that when the airplane was about 20 to 30 feet above the runway, it encountered a violent wind gust and came down hard on the main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4855A
- Reported as
- Cessna 310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R1391
- Airframe hours
- 2,759
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-M1, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lowry & Associates
- Registered owner
- Donald G. Lowry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 22, 1990 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- PWM · Portland, ME
- Destination
- HYA · Hyannis, MA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HYA · Barnstable, runway 24, 5,430 × 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 834 total · 157 in this make and model · 720 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.