- Date
- May 26, 2024, 20:28 local (May 27, 2024, 04:28 UTC)
- Place
- Knik, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9166LBellanca 7GCBC
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA - FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240526007269A
- Case key
- 194375
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive braking during the landing roll, resulting in a nose over.
Findings · 2
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 pilot reported that, during the landing roll on a gravel airstrip, he applied brakes too aggressively which resulted in a nose over that caused substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and both wing spars. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9166L
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 319-72
- Built
- 1972
- Airframe hours
- 4,848.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 11, 2023 · 17.91 hours before
- Departed
- AMR · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- AMR · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- N/A · Beaver Pod Strip, runway North, 960 × 20 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 24, 2023
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 308.5 total · 6.4 in this make and model · 259.7 as pilot in command · 22.6 in the last 90 days · 6.3 in the last 30 days · 0.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.61 inHg
- Observed at
- PAAQ, 22 nm away
- METAR
- PAAQ 261553Z 34004KT 10SM FEW055 BKN100 10/03 A2961 RMK AO2 SLP028 T01000033 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB 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.