20211014018069I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Champion 7ECA · Dubuque, IA · October 14, 2021

Date
October 14, 2021 · 19:38 local
Place
Dubuque, IA
Airport
Dubuque Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8331V
Reported as
Champion 7ECA
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-235 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
357 total169 in this make and model8 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.

The private pilot failed to apply proper corrective actions to prevent aircraft from nosing over. Improper control applicaion caused the aircraft to nose over abruptly after encountering wind gusts resulting in a prop stirike. The private pilot has been counseled by this office to mitigate this risk on future flights.

As the FAA filed it

THE PRIVATE PILOT FAILED TO APPLY PROPER CORRECTIVE ACTIONS TO PREVENT AIRCRAFT FROM NOSING OVER. IMPROPER CONTROL APPLICAION CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO NOSE OVER ABRUPTLY AFTER ENCOUNTERING WIND GUSTS RESULTING IN A PROP STIRIKE. THE PRIVATE PILOT HAS BEEN COUNSELED BY THIS OFFICE TO MITIGATE THIS RISK ON FUTURE FLIGHTS.