- Date
- June 29, 2004, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Casa Grande, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8717VBellanca 7KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20040629013219A
- Case key
- 59585
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Probable cause
the pilot misjudged the flare resulting in a bounced landing. Also causal was the pilot's inadequate recovery from the bounced landing resulting in a loss of directional control.
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 lost directional control of the airplane during landing and it ground looped. During the landing touchdown the airplane bounced, and the pilot attempted to salvage the landing. He said that he either overcontrolled the airplane or hit a brake. The plane veered off the runway, and spun around to the right striking the left wing tip on the ground and separating the left wheel.
Factual narrative
On June 29, 2004, at 1100 mountain daylight time, a Bellanca 7KCAB, N8717V, collided with the ground during the landing roll at Casa Grande, Arizona. The airline transport pilot/owner was operating the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91. The pilot and single passenger were not injured, and the airplane sustained substantial damaged. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a visual flight plan had been filed. The flight originated at Blythe, California, about 1005.
The pilot told the National Transportation Safety Board Investigator that his approach to Casa Grande was normal. During the landing touchdown, the airplane bounced and the pilot attempted to salvage the landing. He said that he either overcontrolled the airplane or hit a brake. The plane veered off the runway, and spun around to the right striking the left wing tip on the ground and separating the left wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8717V
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 523-75
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-320-E2B, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph M. Sepko
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Departed
- KBLH · Blythe, CA
- Destination
- KCHD · Casa Grande, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- KCGZ · Casa Grande, runway 23
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 engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 17,500 total · 8 in this make and model · 127 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.