- Date
- August 15, 1990, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Stow, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N81286Grumman AA5B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900815033209A
- Case key
- 36718
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly plan the approach which resulted in the pilot misjudging the touch down point and landed long.
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 two approaches and go arounds and on the third approach touched down long. The airplane ran off the departure end of the runway into a swampy area under calm wind conditions. The runway is 2743 ft long and has trees on the approach end. The pilot said he had not flown the airplane in 30 days due to traveling.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N81286
- Reported as
- Grumman AA5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B-0484
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hung Yu
- Departed
- ASH · Nashua, NH
- Airport
- GB6 · Minuteman, runway 3, 2,743 × 50 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 132 total · 14 in this make and model · 80 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- 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.