- Date
- May 28, 2005, 13:35 local (19:35 UTC)
- Place
- Laurel, MT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N133DJJackson Rans S-6S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 13, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20050528011249A
- Case key
- 61602
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate remedial action which resulted in a stall/spin during final approach to land. A contributing factor was the student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the landing approach.
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
According to the flight instructor, the student pilot was at the controls and they were making an approach to runway 04. On final approach, the instructor noted that the airplane was "starting to get too low and slow." He told the student to add power twice and then told the student to go around. The instructor reported that "full throttle is added, nose pitches up abruptly and steeply. Left wing stalls." The instructor took the controls, momentarily regained control, but then stalled the airplane a second time while attempting to clear terrain. The student pilot reported, "I let my airspeed get too slow and corrective measures did not prevail."
Factual narrative
On May 28, 2005, at 1335 mountain daylight time, a Jackson Rans S-6S amateur-built experimental airplane, N133DJ, sustained substantial damage when it impacted the ground in an uncontrolled descent following a loss of control while landing at the Laurel Municipal Airport, Laurel, Montana. The flight instructor and the student pilot were not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the student pilot. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the local instructional flight. The flight departed a private airstrip in Laurel at 1320.
According to the flight instructor, the student pilot was at the controls and they were making an approach to runway 04. On final approach, the instructor noted that the airplane was "starting to get too low and slow." He told the student to add power twice and then told the student to go around. The instructor reported that "full throttle is added, nose pitches up abruptly and steeply. Left wing stalls." The instructor took the controls, momentarily regained control, but then stalled the airplane a second time while attempting to clear terrain. The student pilot reported, "I let my airspeed get too slow and corrective measures did not prevail."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N133DJ
- Reported as
- Jackson Rans S-6S
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 06041578
- Engine
- Rotax 912, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Drew G. Jackson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- Laurel, MT
- Destination
- 6S8 · Laurel, MT
- Airport
- 6S8 · Laurel Municipal Airport, runway 04
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 75
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 17,178 total · 7 in this make and model · 19 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 72
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 60 total · 20 in this make and model · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.