- Date
- March 12, 1982, 14:43 local (20:43 UTC)
- Place
- Lubbock, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4193YBellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71508
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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.
Nose down
Weather condition - high windCause
Weather evaluation - improperCause
Proper assistance - not attainedCause
Analysis
While taxiing to takeoff the pilot noticed an increase in wind and decided to return to the ramp. As he turned left the wind picked up the right wing and flipped the aircraft over. The wind was at 24 KTS. Gusting to 34 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4193Y
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1192-77
- Airframe hours
- 540
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- G. T. Aviation
- Registered owner
- G. T. Aviation
- Departed
- LBB · Lubbock, TX
- Destination
- Midland, TX
- Airport
- LBB · Lubbock International, runway 26, 8,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,488 total · 78 in this make and model · 3,364 as pilot in command · 96 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 24 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 192 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LBB
Other investigations on N4193Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.