- Date
- December 29, 1983, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Murrieta, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90973Bellanca 7ECA
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831229064939A
- Case key
- 24129
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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.
Analysis
The acft nosed over during landing rollout. The plt reported the acft speed on final was 80 mph which is faster than normal. The acft touched down about 900 ft down the 2682 ft rwy. The landing was on rwy 15 and the wind was from 045 degrees at 4 KTS. The plt increased braking to try to stop and the acft veered off the rwy to the right near the departure end. The acft came to rest within about 150 ft of the arpt boundary. The plt had about 30 hrs in tailwheel type acft and had received a checkout in the subject acft two months before the date of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90973
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 902-73
- Airframe hours
- 1,535
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael Dewey Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Frank J. Priest
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 23, 1983 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- SZP · Sant Paula, CA
- Airport
- L86 · Thompson, runway 15, 2,682 × 40 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 271 total · 6 in this make and model · 187 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.