- Date
- June 7, 1992, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wallace, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7921SChampion 8KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920607021139A
- Case key
- 8613
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the crosswind landing. A factor was the crosswind condition.
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
The pilot stated that during the crosswind landing attempt, he lost directional control. The aircraft weather vaned into the wind and departed the runway. After departing the runway, the aircraft struck an embankment on the side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7921S
- Reported as
- Champion 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 272-76
- Airframe hours
- 930
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stevens, John P.
- Registered owner
- Inverted Investments Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 17, 1991 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- MRH · Morehead City, NC
- Destination
- ACZ · Wallace, NC
- Airport
- ACZ · Henderson Field, runway 27, 4,000 × 75 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,341 total · 121 in this make and model · 3,320 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N7921S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.