- Date
- October 16, 1990, 13:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Wildwood, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9575LGrumman American AA-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 6, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901016046309A
- Case key
- 36825
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing.
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airspeed - misjudgedFactor
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertentFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentFactor
Nose over
Analysis
The student pilot was observed to land too fast, balloon, porpoise, depart the side of the runway, and flip over in the grass.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9575L
- Reported as
- Grumman American AA-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1B0675
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hortman Aviation Services
- Registered owner
- Herbert M. Horman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PNE · Philadelphia, PA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- WWD · Cape May County Airport, runway 1, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
N9575LRegistration cancelled Apr 4, 2018 · Grumman American Avn. AA-1BAirframe modelGrumman American Avn. AA-1BEngine modelLycoming 0-235 series
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 8 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.