- Date
- October 7, 2000, 17:00 local (Oct 8, 2000, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Paula, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N707SRAeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 8, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20001007019119A
- Case key
- 51221
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain control of the tail wheel equipped aircraft while taxiing due to excessive taxi speed resulting in a collision with parked aircraft.
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 pilot said he was taxiing his tail wheel equipped aircraft too fast while exiting the runway after landing. His aircraft struck two parked aircraft.
Factual narrative
On October 7, 2000, at 1700 hours Pacific daylight time, an Aeronca 7AC, N707SR, was substantially damaged when the aircraft turned left off runway 22 after landing and struck two parked aircraft at the Santa Paula, California, airport. The certificated commercial pilot and one passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight, which was operated by the owner under 14 CFR Part 91. The local area flight departed from Santa Paula at 1655 and no flight plan was filed.
In his report to the Safety Board the pilot acknowledged taxiing too fast while exiting the runway after landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N707SR
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3393
- Airframe hours
- 3,200
- Engine
- Continental A-75, 75 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Curt Schutze
- Registered owner
- Craig E. Marzec
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1999 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- SZP
- Airport
- SZP · Santa Paula, runway 22, 2,650 × 40 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 2,118 total · 350 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CMA, 8 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.