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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7DC · Mesa, AZ · February 9, 1997

Date
February 9, 1997 · 15:30 local
Place
Mesa, AZ
Airport
Falcon Field Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4462E
Reported as
Bbavia 7DC
Reported engine
Continental C858
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,170 total112 in this make and model261 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Narrative: on landing the student overcorrected with the rudder. Paul mclaughlin tried to keep the aircraft under control. He reduced power to idle and let the aircraft roll off the runway. It went into a ditch at an angle and as they approached the up slope of the ditch the leftmain gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: ON LANDING THE STUDENT OVERCORRECTED WITH THE RUDDER. PAUL MCLAUGHLIN TRIED TO KEEP THE AIRCRAFT UNDER CONTROL. HE REDUCED POWER TO IDLE AND LET THE AIRCRAFT ROLL OFF THE RUNWAY. IT WENT INTO A DITCH AT AN ANGLE AND AS THEY APPROACHED THE UP SLOPE OF THE DITCH THE LEFTMAIN GEAR COLLAPSED.

Other reports on N4462E · 5

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.