- Date
- September 5, 1983, 08:08 local (13:08 UTC)
- Place
- Danevang, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9997YChampion 7GCB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830905046439A
- Case key
- 21044
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
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The plt stated that after touchdown, he turned too fast & lost directional control of the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9997Y
- Reported as
- Champion 7GCB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 194
- Airframe hours
- 1,787
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harry S. Shannon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 27, 1983
- Departed
- Danevang, TX
- Airport
- Pvt. Strip, runway 18, 3,000 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,246 total · 1,787 in this make and model · 4,186 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.