- Date
- July 29, 2010, 17:40 local (Jul 30, 2010, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N19CKBellanca 8GCBC
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100729043941A
- Case key
- 76802
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control after encountering a crosswind during landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot was practicing touch and go landings in his single-engine airplane when he encountered a gust of wind while in the landing flare, which pushed the left wing up. He said he tried to compensate by adding power, but the airplane changed direction and crossed over a grassy area and collided with a parked airplane. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was practicing touch and go landings in his single-engine airplane when he encountered a gust of wind while in the landing flare, which pushed the left wing up. He said he tried to compensate by adding power, but the airplane changed direction and crossed over a grassy area and collided with a parked airplane. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N19CK
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28078
- Airframe hours
- 1,782
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Buckmeier Arlan M
- Registered owner
- Buckmeier Arlan M
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 2, 2009
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Destination
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- FAI · Fairbanks International, runway 02, 2,900 × 75 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 97 in this make and model · 34 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.94 inHg
- Observed at
- FAI
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 13, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 479 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N19CK · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.