- Date
- May 11, 1990, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hamilton, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4352CChampion 7EC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900511016739A
- Case key
- 14671
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve.
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
The pilot with a passenger had concluded a local flight with practice takeoffs and landings. Directional control was lost on the second landing and the aircraft departed the runway to the left, crossed a ditch & taxiway, and impacted trees. The aircraft sustained substantial damage, however the occupants reported no injuries. Subsequent investigation of the aircraft's brakes and wheel bearings revealed nothing that would have had an adverse impact on the aircraft's performance.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4352C
- Reported as
- Champion 7EC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7EC-371
- Airframe hours
- 2,671
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pro Aero, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 4, 1989 · 77 hours before
- Airport
- HAO · Hamilton-Fairfield, runway 29, 5,130 × 80 ft, asphalt
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,308 total · 8 in this make and model · 1,182 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAY, 22 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.