- Date
- February 17, 1992, 16:13 local (20:13 UTC)
- Place
- Sitka, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N82380Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920217002969A
- Case key
- 5691
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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Probable cause
The pilot/flight instructor's loss of directional control during the landing roll and the subsequent ground loop/swerve. Contributing to the accident was the gusty crosswind condition.
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.
Analysis
The airline transport certificated pilot/flight instructor stated that during the landing roll he encountered a gust of crosswind that caused him to lose directional control and ground loop the airplane. The airplane departed the side of the runway, went down an embankment and struck rocks which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82380
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-1013
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-T1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Diment, Archie G.
- Registered owner
- Diment, Archie G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1991 · 18 hours before
- Airport
- SIT · Sitka, runway 11, 6,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SIT, 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.