- Date
- August 29, 1985, 09:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chetaslina Rvr, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N83725Bellanca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4553
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 - inadequateCause
Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area - inadequateCause
PressureFactor
All available runway - inadequateCause
Self-induced pressureFactor
Airspeed - not attainedCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The pilot stated that he run out of runway and he did not reach min flying speed for lift off. The tundra run way created more drag than the pilot had anticipated. The pilot then departed thr tundra runway lost directional control of the aircraft crusing a ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N83725
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC2403
- Airframe hours
- 2,299
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gary Gould
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 28, 1984 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 150 in this make and model · 134 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg