- Date
- July 31, 1987, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Selma, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1017KLuscombe 8A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25655
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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
A Luscombe 8A collided with two parked airplanes after a hand propped start. The student pilot started the aircraft engine without the brakes set, with no chocks, and with no one in the cockpit. Once the engine started, the aircraft subsequently collided with a Cessna 150 and a Cessna 172. The student pilot had no flight instruction since 1972. He was last endorsed for solo flight in a Luscombe 8A on 6/20/70 and had no endorsement on his student pilot certificate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1017K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3744
- Engine
- Continental A-65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rasmussen, Paul A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 25, 1987 · 65 hours before
- Departed
- OQ4
- Airport
- 004 · Selma
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 56 total · 42 in this make and model · 47 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAT, 9 nm away