- Date
- August 18, 1982, 19:02 local (Aug 19, 1982, 00:02 UTC)
- Place
- Plano, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N10984Bellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 18, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820818039259A
- Case key
- 72253
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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
During the 1818 departure from addison the plt advised addison tower that he was going to airpark-dallas for touch & go landings. The acft was observed to make at least one touch & go. At 1902 a witness called and reported hearing a noise, seeing a cloud of dust & the tail of an airplane sticking up in a field. The acft impacted the ground in a vertical attitude. The plt had previously given the passenger flight instruction in conventional gear acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10984
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 820-72
- Airframe hours
- 686
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- D.W. Stephens
- Registered owner
- D.W. Stephens
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Destination
- ADS · Addison, TX
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
- 37
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,718 total · 179 in this make and model · 2,618 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Temperature
- 192 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N10984 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.