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CHI83FA353 · Gulfstream AA-5B

1 Aug 1983 · West Chicago, IL, United States

Gulfstream AA-5B · Accident: hard landing

From Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
CHI83FA353
Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Completed
API-reported fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
0
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
General aviation
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Visual Meteorological Cond

Gulfstream AA-5B

Aircraft type
Gulfstream AA-5
Category
Airplane
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
N4557E
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Wittman Regional Airport (OSH), Oshkosh, WITo not recorded
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Part 91: General Aviation
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
Landing · flare/touchdown
First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Hard landing
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Substantial

Cause areas

  • Pilot in command › Flare, improper
  • Pilot in command › Go-around, delayed
  • Pilot in command › Recovery from bounced landing, improper

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

THE PLT REPORTED THAT DURING A NIGHT LANDING, THE ACFT BEGAN TO PORPOISE. HE APPLIED POWER TO GO AROUND, BUT THE PLANE WENT OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RWY. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT COLLIDED WITH BRUSH & A CHAIN LINK FENCE & CAME TO REST ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. THE PLT REPORT HAVING 1 HR OF NIGHT TIME DURING THE PREVIOUS 90 DAYS.

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record CHI83FA353
Event ID
20001214X44032
Case number
CHI83FA353
Dataset
historical-pre2008
Source SHA-256
89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
  • Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
  • Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
  • The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-08-02.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: 2b8e7421824ab327e5b7c4fe866e4f3f27e849dbf890d01109f73eee8d06feed; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:38:48.396Z.