- Date
- September 30, 1991, 18:00 local (Oct 1, 1991, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Granite Falls, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6182LGrumman AA-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910930044139A
- Case key
- 41554
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Probable cause
The pilot's decision to not perform a go-around and a misjudged distance.
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
While landing on a grass strip, the airplane touched down and bounced. The pilot applied power and the airplane settled to the runway. The pilot felt that there was sufficient room to stop on the 1,500 foot strip and applied brakes, however, the airplane did not have sufficient room to stop and ran off the end of the runway, through a barbed wire fence and into an open field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6182L
- Reported as
- Grumman AA-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0382
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carl C. Ulmschneider
- Registered owner
- Carl C. Ulmschneider
- Departed
- RNT · Renton, WA
- Destination
- WA25 · Granite Falls, WA
- Airport
- WA25 · Green Valley, runway 3, 1,500 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 890 total · 812 in this make and model · 838 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °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.