- Date
- July 8, 1983, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Leslie, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11675Bellanca Citabria 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830708029799A
- Case key
- 12256
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft landed hard and bounced. The acft drifted left off the rwy and nosed over in a plowed area. The landing was on rwy 18 and the wind was from 270 degrees at 8 KTS. The student pilot said he needed more dual time in crosswind landings. He had 11 hours dual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11675
- Reported as
- Bellanca Citabria 7ECA (CITABRIA 7)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 850-72
- Airframe hours
- 830
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth E. Makin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 12, 1982 · 43 hours before
- Airport
- Taylor Field, runway 18, 1,650 × 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 18 total · 18 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F
- Observed at
- JXN, 11 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.