- Date
- April 25, 1993, 16:26 local (21:26 UTC)
- Place
- Newark, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2510FChampion 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930425017089A
- Case key
- 18283
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall. A factor was: the pilot's diverted attention.
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 in command was giving the second pilot a checkout in a tailwheel equipped airplane. They were practicing touch and go landings at a private use airport. When a security guard drove down the runway to get their registration number, they pulled the airplane up to 50 to 100 feet AGL and made a steep right bank. The pilot in command's attention was diverted out the left side of the airplane. When he looked back out the front, the airplane was beginning to strike the ground. The airplane owner and operator said the airplane entered a full power, accelerated departure stall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2510F
- Reported as
- Champion 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 125
- Airframe hours
- 2,846
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Split S Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hodge, Anthony W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 1, 1993 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- T67 · Fort Worth, TX
- Destination
- T67
- Airport
- 4TA2 · Kenneth Copeland, runway 35, 4,000 × 125 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 997 total · 15 in this make and model · 892 as pilot in command · 493 in the last 90 days · 112 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 12 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.