- Date
- June 17, 1986, 13:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Pacoima, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89403Cessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860617025489A
- Case key
- 25185
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Aircraft handling - improperCause
Lack of total experience in kind of aircraftFactor
Nose over
Analysis
The plt lost control of the acft during landing. A witness stated that when the acft was about one-fourth of the way down the rwy, it began porpoising and then flipped over on its back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89403
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8435
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Continental E-85, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph E.Bolyard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 13, 1986
- Departed
- SZP · Santa Paula, CA
- Airport
- WHP · Whiteman, runway 12, 3,725 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 207 total · 21 in this make and model · 122 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.