- Date
- November 10, 1999, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hollandale, MS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N55035Bellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 14, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991110030989A
- Case key
- 47740
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Probable cause
The certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the landing and the student pilot's failure to relinquish the flight controls when the certified flight instructor attempted to recover from a bounced landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
After several takeoffs and landings at the municipal airport, they returned to the private airport. Upon arriving, the pilot established an approach for a wheel landing on the north runway. During the touchdown phase of the wheel landing, the airplane bounced. According the certified flight instructor, 'I attempted to recover the airplane, but he ,the student pilot, did not relinquish the controls.' The airplane veered off the eastern edge of the runway and collided with a ditch. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilots.
Factual narrative
On November 10, 1999, at 1130 central standard time, a Bellanca 8GCBC, N55035, veered off the runway and collided with an adjacent ditch at the Longwood Airport in Hollandale, Mississippi. The instructional flight was operated by Longwood Flying Service, under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Visual weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The certified flight instructor and the student pilot were not injured. The flight departed the Longwood Airport, a private airport, in Hollandale, Mississippi, at 1000.
According to the certified flight instructor, after several takeoffs and landings at the Hollandale Municipal Airport, they returned to the Longwood Airport. Upon arriving at Longwood, the pilot established an approach for a wheel landing on the north runway. During the touchdown phase of the wheel landing, the airplane bounced. According the certified flight instructor, "I attempted to recover the airplane, but he, the student pilot, did not relinquish the controls." The airplane veered off the eastern edge of the runway and collided with a ditch.
No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the pilots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55035
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 276-78
- Airframe hours
- 1,374
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1C, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Claude G. Steele IV
- Registered owner
- Longwood Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 1999 · 48 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 12,334 total · 55 in this make and model · 12,078 as pilot in command · 215 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO, 40 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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