- Date
- April 9, 1983, 08:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Auburn, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7597BChampion 7FC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 24229
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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.
Hard landing
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - initiated
Loss of control - in flight
Go-around - initiated
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Terrain condition - high obstruction(s)Factor
Maneuver - initiated
Terrain condition - ground
Analysis
The student plt was on his 2st solo flt. On the 3rd landing, the acft bounced & the student added power to recover. The acft veered left, & when the student observed that he was rapidly approaching trees, he banked the acft. The right wing tip impacted the ground & the acft crashed. This was the 1st student that the instructor had trained to the point of soloing. The student had never flown with another instructor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7597B
- Reported as
- Champion 7FC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7FC-95
- Airframe hours
- 3,200
- Engine
- Continental C90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sunshine Flyers
- Registered owner
- Laurence P. Thompson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 31, 1984
- Departed
- AUN · Auburn, CA
- Destination
- AUN · Auburn, CA
- Airport
- AUN · Auburn Muni, runway 7, 3,100 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 19 total · 19 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °F