- Date
- October 3, 1983, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Rayne, LA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N82147Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21170
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 - in flight
Airspeed - inadequateCause
Throttle/power control - improper use ofCause
Remedial action - inadequateCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
Hard landing
Ground loop/swerve - not correctedFactor
Analysis
The acft stalled during final approach and landed hard on the dirt airstrip. The CFI said he yelled 'add power' when he felt the acft buffet. The student plt reacted by pulling off the power and the acrt stalled to ground contact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82147
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-800
- Airframe hours
- 4,590
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jon R. Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1981 · 30 hours before
- Airport
- Kennedy, runway 36, 2,700 × 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
- 21
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total · 15 in this make and model · 800 as pilot in command · 95 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 200° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg