NTSB Identification: ERA12CA064
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, November 05, 2011 in Whitefield, NH
Probable Cause Approval Date: 02/16/2012
Aircraft: STINSON 108-3, registration: N6263M
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The student pilot stated that he was conducting solo practice takeoffs and landings in the airport traffic pattern in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. During the third landing flare, the airplane drifted to the left and bounced on the runway. The pilot applied full engine power to attempt a go-around but realized that the airplane would not clear trees at the end of the runway. The pilot then removed engine power and elected to land in a swamp. Upon touchdown, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing and vertical stabilizer. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
The student pilot did not maintain directional control during the landing flare.
The student pilot stated that he was conducting solo practice takeoffs and landings in the airport traffic pattern in the tailwheel-equipped airplane. During the third landing flare, the airplane drifted to the left and bounced on the runway. The pilot applied full engine power to attempt a go-around, but realized that the airplane would not clear trees at the end of the runway. The pilot then removed engine power and elected to land in a swamp. Upon touchdown, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing and vertical stabilizer. A Federal Aviation Administration inspector, who examined the airplane after the accident, reported there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane.
WHITEFIELD — A Stratford man training to get his pilot’s license was at the controls Saturday when a wind gust hit the antique airplane he was flying and turned it upside down, landing on the ground at Whitefield Airport, according to Whitefield’s Fire Chief Jay Watkins.
Ben Blodgett, who had reached the point in his training that he’s allowed to fly solo, was executing “touch-and-gos” when the accident occurred, according to the airport’s manager, Ed Stevens, who said Blodgett was shaken up, but was not injured.
“Any time you walk away … it’s a plus,” Stevens said.
A registration check identified the badly damaged plane as a 1948 Stinson Voyager Flying Station Wagon single engine, four-passenger craft.
“It blew onto its roof,” said Watkins, who responded to the scene.
“It’s a small private plane, and he was landing when a wind gust took him off the runway and the plane flipped over.’’
Federal Aviation Administration investigators were expected on the scene Monday.
Watkins said workers hauled the plane to an airport hangar pending FAA inspection.
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A North-Country man lost control of his single-engine plane and crashed Saturday at the Mount Washington Regional Airport in Whitefield. The plane came to rest upside down in a swampy area alongside the runway but the pilot was not injured. The pilot told officials he was trying to land and a gust of wind caught the aircraft.
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WHITEFIELD, N.H. -- A Stinson plane landed upside down in a swamp southwest of Mount Washington Regional Airport early Saturday afternoon. FAA officials said the pilot was doing touch-and-go practice landings and takeoffs before the 1:15 p.m. crash. The pilot was not injured in the crash, officials said. The plane was still sitting in the swamp as of Saturday afternoon.
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