- Date
- November 10, 1989, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Scappoose, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4379GMcCulloch J-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891110044829A
- Case key
- 41144
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Probable cause
Delayed remedial action by the flight instructor and failure of the student to relinguish control. Factors include inadequate airspeed and an excessive descent rate.
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
During a local instructional flight, the student pilot allowed the gyroplane's airspeed to get too low during a simulated emergency landing. As a result, the gyroplane's sink rate was too high. The flight instructor took over and attempted to increase power, however, sufficient airspeed was not attained before a hard landing was made.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4379G
- Reported as
- McCulloch J-2
- Category
- Gyroplane
- Serial number
- 089
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James A. Vanek
- Airport
- 1S4 · Scappoose
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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,085 total · 89 in this make and model · 4,971 as pilot in command · 99 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- -0 °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.