- Date
- March 22, 1987, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bellefontaine, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90398Champion 7FC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7392
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Inadequate transition/upgrade trainingCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Analysis
The acft was landed on rwy 04 with the wind from the east at eight KTS. The flight was the first solo in a tail wheel equipped acft for the plt. He had obtained no formal instruction in a tail wheel acft but had flown with a friend. On landing the acft bounced, touched down again, and yawed right. The acft ran off the rwy right side and collided with tree. To prevent the accident the plt recommended obtaining additional training.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90398
- Reported as
- Champion 7FC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7FC-128
- Airframe hours
- 2,841
- Engine
- Continental C90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kauffman,W.W.
- Registered owner
- William W. Kauffman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1986
- Airport
- 7I7 · Bellefontaine Municipal, runway 4, 4,400 × 65 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 93 total · 6 in this make and model · 62 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAY, 45 nm away