- Date
- March 29, 2001, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Las Vegas, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88352Bellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20010329004359A
- Case key
- 51984
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll. Factors were weather evaluation by the pilot and rough terrain off the side of the runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot was conducting his final landing from a local flight, on which he had stayed in the pattern. He landed on runway 20 with a right quartering tail wind of approximately 6 knots. During landing roll, the aircraft departed the left side of the runway into rough terrain. The landing gear was sheared off and the left wing buckled.
Factual narrative
On March 29, 2001, at 1430 mountain standard time, a Bellanca 8GCBC, N88352, sustained substantial damage when it departed the side of the runway into rough terrain during landing roll at Las Vegas, New Mexico. The private pilot and sole occupant was not injured. The flight was being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this local area personal flight which originated at 1415.
According to the pilot, he was flying in the pattern to warm the engine for an oil change. He said the wind sock indicated a right crosswind and that his landing was normal. During landing roll, according to his account, a wind gust lifted the right wing and he lost directional control and the aircraft exited the left side of the runway where it hit a depression causing the main landing gear to collapse. The left wing then hit the ground and buckled.
The landing was made on runway 20 and, at the time, the wind was from 360 degrees at 7 knots. This provided a quartering tail wind of approximately 6 knots during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88352
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 116-74
- Airframe hours
- 14,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C2E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald A. Pederson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 29, 2000 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- LVS · Las Vegas, NM
- Airport
- LVS · Las Vegas Municipal, runway 20, 5,001 × 75 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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Last flight review
- January 10, 2001
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 355 total · 100 in this make and model · 280 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.76 inHg
- Observed at
- LVS, 1 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.