ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209550
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| Date: | Friday 29 March 1996 |
| Time: | 12:10 |
| Type: |  Grumman American AA-5 Traveler |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-ETT |
| MSN: | AA5-0282 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Parndana, SA -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | YPPF |
| Parndana, SA | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft departed from Parafield with three persons on board. The pilot estimated the aircraft weight was within tolerance, being just below the allowable maximum all up weight for the aircraft type. The destination airstrip had a steep uphill gradient in the landing direction to the north. A 20-30 knot northerly wind was blowing at the time. The pilot assessed the situation, but because the wind was not generating a great deal of turbulence he believed it to be lighter, but he still decided to make a shallow approach at a slightly faster speed. On final approach, as the aircraft descended through about 500 ft above ground level, the pilot believed it experienced windshear, with the airspeed decreasing from 70 kt to 60 kt, and an increase in the rate of descent. On short final the pilot reduced power, then flared for the landing but too high. He felt the aircraft sink but did not increase power to arrest the descent, with the result the aircraft struck the ground heavily on its main wheels, bounced, then turned to the left impacting the ground again with the left main wheel, left wingtip, nose wheel, and propeller. The nose gear separated, and the left main gear fractured. A witness on the ground reported that a stronger wind gust occurred just as the aircraft was on short final and commencing to flare at about 20 feet above ground level. It then sank rapidly to the ground.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1996/aair/199601084/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/4931723/199601084.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 December 1987 | VH-ETT | 0 | Springvale Station, SA | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 19-Apr-2018 10:29 | Pineapple | Added |
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