- Date
- November 19, 1987, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Belle Plaine, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2716ZBellanca 7GCAA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871119069359A
- Case key
- 14019
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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.
Analysis
After the acft was in the traffic pattern, the instructor (CFI) initiated a simulated forced landing. Just before touchdown on final apch, the student (a rated pvt plt) allowed the acft to drift to the right. The CFI attempted a go-around, but was delayed in regaining control of the acft. He said the student was fighting his control inputs, although he (the CFI) had provided instructions to 'get off the controls.' When the CFI banked the acft to the right to avoid a rwy marker, the right wing contacted the ground & the acft pivoted to the right & was damaged. The student said he did not hear the instruction to release controls.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2716Z
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCAA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 354-78
- Airframe hours
- 4,491
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- G & R Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 21, 1987
- Departed
- FCM · Minneapolis, MN
- Airport
- 7Y7 · Belle Plaine, runway 36, 2,500 × 125 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 721 total · 130 in this make and model · 543 as pilot in command · 107 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point -0 °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.