- Date
- February 21, 2022, 14:55 local (19:55 UTC)
- Place
- Franklin, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2521ZBellanca 7GCBC
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220221002409A
- Case key
- 104675
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of control in the landing pattern resulting in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he was performing touch and go landings when he stalled the airplane. The airplane departed controlled flight and impacted in a field near the airport and sustained substantial damage to the front of the fuselage and both wings. A post accident examination of the airplane showed no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2521Z
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 994-77
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 2,607
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tom Wood Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 8, 2022 · 4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 3FK · Franklin Field
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 83
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- May 13, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 4,250 total · 105 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 16 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- KBAK, 12 nm away
- METAR
- KBAK 211950Z 20016KT 10SM OVC050 16/05 A2999
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 7, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.