- Date
- March 20, 1990, 13:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- White City, OR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N353FGde Havilland DH 82A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900320011869A
- Case key
- 41177
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Probable cause
Pilot's delay in taking remedial action to prevent an undershoot. His misjudgement of distance and altitude on final approach were related factors.
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 entered a high traffic pattern for landing and reduced the throttle to minimum power setting. He slowly increased the throttle to correct for an under shoot angle of descent on short final approach and the engine did not instantly respond. He further increased the throttle and engine power increased about the time the aircraft struck trees 250 ft from the end of the airstrip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N353FG
- Reported as
- de Havilland DH 82A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- DE-632
- Engine
- de Havilland GYPSY MAJOR, 122 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Herbert W. Sutton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1989 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- MFR · Medford, OR
- Airport
- runway 27, 2,200 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 9,844 total · 20 in this make and model · 9,540 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MFR, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.