- Date
- December 31, 1982, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Calistoga, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N85400Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 31, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 70102
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
On ground/water collision with object
Object - aircraft parked/standing
Analysis
Initial information indicated that the acft landed with a quartering tailwind, ground looped & collided with a parked glider. A pilot/operator accident report was not received.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85400
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-4140
- Engine
- UNK, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Clift, Richard D.
- Registered owner
- Clift, Richard D.
- Departed
- C · Quincy, CA
- Destination
- C · Calistoga, CA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 058 · Calistoga
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 150 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Day