- Date
- February 4, 1987, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7539BChampion 7EC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870204001669A
- Case key
- 4768
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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Analysis
The pilot-in-command accomplished unauthorized repairs to his airplane after an incident four days earlier. He repaired the right main landing gear by using a common door hinge to attach it to the fuselage. Upon landing, the door hinge failed and control of the airplane was lost.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7539B
- Reported as
- Champion 7EC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 596
- Airframe hours
- 4,345
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Steven B. Grand
- Registered owner
- Seven Star Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 18, 1986 · 126 hours before
- Departed
- Kustatan, AK
- Destination
- LHD · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- LHD · Lake Hood, runway 27, snow
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,840 total · 203 in this make and model · 1,430 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 1 nm away
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 N7539B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.