# NTSB investigations: American Champion 7GCBC: Loss of control on ground

NTSB aviation accident and incident investigations since 1962: the probable cause, findings, aircraft, crew, weather and docket of each, linked to the FAA registry and the FAA’s own reports.

## Latest cases

- [NTSB ERA26LA282](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA26LA282.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Sanford, ME · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report · Jul 27, 2026 · N291CA · Substantial damage
  > The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing and the flight instructor’s inadequate remedial action, which resulted in a ground loop.
- [NTSB WPR23LA355](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR23LA355.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Woodland, CA · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report · Sep 7, 2023 · N234RA · Substantial damage
  > The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop.
- [NTSB ERA22LA152](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA22LA152.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Plainville, CT · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report · Mar 10, 2022 · N91JB · Substantial damage
  > The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
- [NTSB ERA21LA150](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA21LA150.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Montgomery, NY · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report · Nov 8, 2020 · N139PC · Substantial damage
  > The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing, resulting in a ground loop and structural damage to the airframe.
- [NTSB CEN20CA281](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN20CA281.md): Champion 7GCBC · Houston, TX · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Data collection · Final report · Jul 14, 2020 · N72EB · Substantial damage
  > The flight instructor and student pilot did not properly transfer airplane control during ground rollout, which resulted in the airplane exiting the runway and impacting a ditch.
- [NTSB WPR20CA227](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR20CA227.md): Champion 7GCBC · McCall, ID · Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Data collection · Final report · Jul 12, 2020 · N952B · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's decision to land with excessive approach airspeed, which resulted in the airplane landing long, the application of additional braking action to stop and subsequent nose over.
- [NTSB GAA18CA176](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA18CA176.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Ontario, OR · Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report · Mar 18, 2018 · N234RA · Substantial damage
  > The flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control during landing, in cross wind conditions.
- [NTSB GAA18CA120](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA18CA120.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Santa Paula, CA · Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report · Feb 2, 2018 · N519AC · Substantial damage
  > The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing due to being distracted by another airplane and her delayed initiation of a go-around, during which the right wing struck a parked helicopter.
- [NTSB CEN11CA450](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN11CA450.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Sugar Land, TX · Accident · Minor injuries · Data collection · Final report · Jul 2, 2011 · N79RA · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
- [NTSB CEN10CA328](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN10CA328.md): American Champion 7GCBC · Arcola, TX · Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report · Jun 16, 2010 · N72EB · Substantial damage
  > The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the tailwheel-equipped airplane during the landing roll.

## The whole list in SQL

Runs in DuckDB 1.2 or later on the release's Parquet files over HTTPS:

```sql
SELECT c."ntsbNumber", c."eventDate", c."eventType", c."eventCity", c."eventStateOrRegion", a.n_number, a."aircraftMake", a."aircraftModel", c."highestInjuryLevel", c."totalFatal", c."completionStatus", c.report_url
FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c."mKey" AND a.position = 1
WHERE c."mKey" IN (SELECT x.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' x WHERE x.aircraft_model_code IN ('21101PL')
    AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' s WHERE s.case_mkey = x.case_mkey AND s.aircrafts_position = x.position AND s."tier2Number" = '230' AND s.case_mkey IN (SELECT case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_events.parquet' WHERE "isDefiningEvent")))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230/sequence?model=21101PL

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