- Date
- November 12, 1983, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wadley, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7275FCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831112073859A
- Case key
- 6386
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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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Analysis
The plt stated that he landed too fast on the grass strip, & when he attempted to turn off the rwy onto a taxiway, the acft groundlooped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7275F
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8469
- Engine
- Continental C-85-12F, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Alex A. Bobich
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1983 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- SBO · Swansboro, GA
- Destination
- Wadley, GA
- Airport
- Bobich Strip, runway 17, 1,500 × ft, grass/turf
N7275FRegistration cancelled May 7, 2013 · Cessna 140Airframe modelCessna 140Engine modelContinental C85 series
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 29 total · 29 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- 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.