- Date
- April 29, 1992, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N87020Bellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920429015659A
- Case key
- 15436
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain directional control.
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 was practicing takeoff and landings in the tail wheel aircraft. On landing the aircraft drifted to the left. The pilot indicated that he used right rudder to correct, however over corrected and the airplane groundlooped to the right. The left main landing gear collapsed and the left wing impacted the terrain during the ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N87020
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 52-74
- Airframe hours
- 5,635
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- American Aerial Advertising
- Registered owner
- American Aerial Advertising
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 27, 1992 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- SD96 · Sittig, runway 17, 3,100 × 50 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5,180 total · 5 in this make and model · 4,990 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 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 N87020 · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.