- Date
- September 23, 1992, 10:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Homer, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N85502Champion 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920923040779A
- Case key
- 5819
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot in commands inflight planning/decision in selecting unsuitable terrain. A factor relating to the accident was the ditch.
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
Pilot landed on beach and impacted ditch and nosed over, tearing off landing gear, substantially damaging vertical stabilizer, fuselage and wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85502
- Reported as
- Champion 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC 4242
- Airframe hours
- 2,707
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Karl D. Stoltzfus
- Registered owner
- Karl D. Stoltzfus
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1992 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- HOM · Homer, AK
- Destination
- Kachemak Bay, AK
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 790 total · 637 in this make and model · 724 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Temperature
- 30 °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.