- Date
- September 13, 1992, 11:23 local (19:23 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11098Champion 7GCAA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920913036369A
- Case key
- 5804
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing roll.
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 student pilot with approximately 1 hour solo experience, ground looped the tail wheel airplane after his first balked landing attempt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11098
- Reported as
- Champion 7GCAA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 106
- Airframe hours
- 3,995
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rex & Kimberly Cutter
- Registered owner
- Rex & Kimberly Cutter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 1992 · 287 hours before
- Departed
- Trapper Creek, AK
- Destination
- TKA
- Airport
- TKA · Talkeetna, runway 36, 3,500 × 75 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 11 in this make and model · 1.5 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 0.3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TKA, 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 N11098 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.