- Date
- March 1, 1991, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Friendswood, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5524KBellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910301003689A
- Case key
- 23306
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Probable cause
The duel student's failure to maintain directional control during the landing and his inadvertent activation of the brakes. A factor was the ditch.
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 dual student, who had 2.4 hours conventional gear time, was riding the brakes when the airplane touched down during practice cross wind touch and go landings. The airplane cocked into the wind and departed the left side of the runway. The instructor regained control of the airplane, straightened it out, and attempted to abort the landing. The airplane collided with a water filled ditch and nosed over prior to getting airborne. The student and the instructor both felt the student was riding the brakes during the attempted abort. The landing was made with a 70 degree left cross wind, reportedly blowing at 8 knots, gusting to 12 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5524K
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1254-78
- Airframe hours
- 1,157
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- David L. Kelsey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 23, 1990 · 73 hours before
- Airport
- T02 · Clover Field, runway 32, 4,300 × 70 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 8,253 total · 183 in this make and model · 6,503 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N5524K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.