# NTSB ATL00LA011: Bellanca 8GCBC, N55035, Hollandale, MS, November 10, 1999

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: November 10, 1999, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place: Hollandale, MS
- Coordinates: 33.170322, -90.849395 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.1703&lon=-90.8494&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 14, 2001
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 47740
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ATL00LA011
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/47740/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL00LA011

## 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

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Loss of control - on ground/water, landing - roll
  - recovery from bounced landing - attempted, pilot in command(cfi) (contributing factor)
  - relinquishing of control - not performed, dual student (cause)
  - supervision - inadequate, pilot in command(cfi) (cause)

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 276-78
- Airframe hours: 1374
- Engines: 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.

- Pilot; age 50; 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)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19991110030989A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19991110030989A), Nov 10, 1999: Bbavia 8GCBC, Hollandale, MS, Substantial damage. (.19) 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…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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