- Date
- March 4, 1990, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rockingham, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N57392Bellanca 7GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900304003029A
- Case key
- 8213
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to maintain directional control while attempting a landing.
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
While attempting a landing on a raceway/runway, the pilot lost directional control and the aircraft flipped over a guardrail. Reportedly, wind from the left picked up the left wing and the pilot was not able to recover before the collision occurred. The pilot did not report an airplane problem.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N57392
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 487-73
- Airframe hours
- 462
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Davenport, Harold
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- DLC · Dillon, SC
- Airport
- Drag Strip, runway 9, 5,000 × 66 ft, asphalt
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 186 total · 34 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAY, 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.