- Date
- September 24, 1986, 13:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hurricane, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1634GChampion 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860924046219A
- Case key
- 17050
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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
Upon making a normal landing the aircraft groundlooped to the right, impacting with an embankment. Aircraft became airborne again and touched down in soft earth, nosed over and substantially damaged the aircraft. No injuries occurred on this VFR training flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1634G
- Reported as
- Champion 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 629
- Airframe hours
- 1,191
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Steven L. Nelson
- Registered owner
- Steven Lee Nelson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 9, 1986 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- 1L8 · Hurricane, UT
- Airport
- IL8 · Hurricane, runway 18, 3,400 × 45 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 650 total · 10 in this make and model · 620 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDC, 36 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.