- Date
- September 10, 1994, 00:00 local (08:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N68522Champion 7ECA
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report May 10, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19940910026199A
- Case key
- 2564
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
Undetermined.
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 airplane was located at a remote airstrip with damage to the fuselage and leading and trailing edges of the wings. The circumstances of the accident are unknown.
Factual narrative
On September 12, 1994, the FAA FSDO in Fairbanks, Alaska notified the National Transportation Safety Board, (NTSB) Anchorage Field Office that a Citabria 7ECA airplane, N68522, was found with substantial damage at the Dave Potts Airstrip approximately 40 nautical miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. The airplane is registered to and owned by Mr. Bruce Rasmussen of Fairbanks, Alaska. The circumstances surrounding the accident are not known.
An FAA inspector reported that the airplane was located on September 10, 1994. The aircraft exhibited damage to the fuselage and leading and trailing edge damage to the wings. The owner of the airplane refused to talk with either the NTSB or the FAA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68522
- Reported as
- Champion 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 864-72
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rasmussen, Bruce
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Unk/Nr
- Airport
- Potts Strip
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,900 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.