- Date
- April 11, 1984, 11:42 local (15:42 UTC)
- Place
- Bettles, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7527FChampion 7GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840411009309A
- Case key
- 4281
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - snow coveredFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - overload
Analysis
The acft groundlooped during landing. The plt said he lost control of the acft. During the swerve one of the gear legs failed and the acft skidded on the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7527F
- Reported as
- Champion 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208-70
- Airframe hours
- 1,000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Douglas Dodge
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 19, 1983 · 150 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Destination
- BTT · Bettles, AK
- Airport
- BTT · Bettles, runway 1, 5,200 × 150 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,515 total · 600 in this make and model · 2,405 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.