- Date
- April 23, 1992, 11:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tewksbury, MA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6325LGrumman American AA-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37147
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to compensate for adverse winds, which resulted in a bounced landing, subsequent loss of airspeed and airplane control.
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 student pilot was unable to compensate for adverse crosswinds during landing. He started to abort the second landing, but the airplane bounced on the runway, and he was unable to attain adequate airspeed and altitude before the airplane struck a tree. Runway 21 is 26 feet wide. The pilot had 71.2 hours total flight time, with 10.3 hours in the last 90 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6325L
- Reported as
- Grumman American AA-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0025
- Airframe hours
- 6,066
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Tew-Mac Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Tew-Mac Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 12, 1991 · 53 hours before
- Airport
- B09 · Tew-Mac, runway 21, 2,800 × 26 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 71 total · 71 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 245° at 9 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F
Other investigations on N6325L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.