- Date
- July 16, 1982, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Belleville, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5PLLuscombe 8F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 16, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820716030679A
- Case key
- 69919
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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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
Undershoot
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Complete gear collapsed
Analysis
During the approach the acft stalled about 20 ft AGL. The plt added power but the acft touched down short of the rwy & collided with a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5PL
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5395
- Airframe hours
- 2,955
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lloyd Cochran
- Registered owner
- Lloyd Cochran
- Departed
- Private Strip, MI
- Destination
- 43G · Larsen Airpark, MI
- Airport
- 43G · Larsen Airpark, runway 36, 1,750 × 180 ft, grass/turf
N5PLRegistration cancelled Sep 5, 2012 · Luscombe 8EAirframe modelLuscombe 8EEngine modelContinental C85 series
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,149 total · 381 in this make and model · 2,072 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 176 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N5PL · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.