- Date
- January 11, 1988, 17:30 local (Jan 12, 1988, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Clovis, NM
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5063JBellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880111022879A
- Case key
- 17435
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Supervision - inadequateFactor
Flare - improperCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - inadvertentFactor
Go-around - initiated
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
In flight collision with object
Object - poleFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5063J
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 339-80
- Airframe hours
- 1,309
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- K Barnett & Sons, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 10, 1987 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- CVN · Clovis, NM
- Airport
- CVN · Clovis Municipal, runway 22, 6,200 × 150 ft, asphalt
N5063JRegistration cancelled Dec 10, 2012 · Bellanca 8GCBCAirframe modelBellanca 8GCBCEngine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 2 in this make and model · 1,101 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CVN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.