- Date
- October 29, 1989, 09:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Churchville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7871SBellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891029043649A
- Case key
- 11564
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Probable cause
The pilot not maintaining adequate clearance from the wind sock during an aborted landing. A contributing factor was the presence of another aircraft.
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
Just prior to touchdown on rwy 01, the pilot noticed another acft on approach for rwy 10. The plt applied full pwr to abort the landing, pulled up & turned right for avoidance. The right wing collided with a 4-inch square wind sock pole adjacent to the rwy, and the acft crashed inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7871S
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 229-76
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Atlantic Soaring, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 28, 1989 · 76 hours before
- Airport
- 0W3 · Harford Co., runway 1, 1,650 × 90 ft, grass/turf
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
- 50
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,200 total · 500 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °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 N7871S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.